[Freeciv-Dev] Re: a civserver patch testing framework (was: [RFC][Patch] Inline)

[Paul Zastoupil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Looks like we need new hardware.  I'll see if we can get a
test.freeciv.org, it would be better if this didn't run on civserver,
where it would affect players.

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 05:03:21PM +0100, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Reinier Post wrote:
> > I've thought out how to implement this in a Makefile
> > and wrote an auxiliary utility, but not the Makefile itself.
> >
> > It would be used from a web interface; its purpose would be
> > to allow different versions to be run on civserver.freeciv.org.
> 
> This is all good, but I would also like better support for testing in
> freeciv proper. Autogames are brilliant, if you know how to set them up.
> But they don't test client<->server interaction, or the clients at all,
> where I suspect the development version still has a lot of bugs.
> 
> In the sound patch I added support for "make check" on the sound stuff.
> Raimar removed this. I would like to see something like this added to
> freeciv eventually (put in a directory of its own, like "tests/"), which
> in addition to running some tests on basic functions (with different
> ruleset options selected), runs a few autogames with different options
> set, then finally loads a savegame produced by this autogame.
> 
> It would also be good to set up a "bug-find farm" with autogames that use
> random server variables and ruleset options (within sane limits). Lots of
> bugs can be uncovered that way. For instance, it took just a quick
> autogame with tech_cost_style=1 to see that this had become broken (I have
> already posted a patch that fixes this).
> 
> Finally it would be really nice to have an "AI" client that can join
> autogames, even if it does nothing other than sitting there with two
> cities run by cma, since this allows us to test network interaction very
> quickly. Don't anyone already have code for this?
> 
> Yours,
> Per
> 
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> for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of
> us all." -- John Maynard Keynes
> 

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Paul Zastoupil