smolder 0.3 review

smolder is a Web-based smoke test server. smolder project can be used by developers and testers to upload (manually or automatical

License: BSD License File size: 0K Developer: Michael Peters

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smolder is a Web-based smoke test server.

smolder project can be used by developers and testers to upload (manually or automatically) and view smoke/regression tests using the Test Anything Protocol.

Details and trends can be viewed in various formats (HTML, XML, YAML) and also via email.

Installation:

Once you've downloaded a Smolder binary distribution, or built one from source, un-tar it and enter the directory created:

tar zxvf smolder-1.013-RH7_3-perl5.6.1-i686-linux.tar.gz
cd smolder-1.013-RH7_3-perl5.6.1-i686-linux

To install, run bin/smolder_install as root, providing options describing how to setup Smolder:

# ./bin/smolder_install
--HostName $HostName
--IPAddress $IPAddress
--DBUser $DBUser
--DBPass $DBPass

These options are described below.

Required Variables:

Before you install you must gather the following information. The following variables should be replaced in example shell commands with the appropriate values.

HostName

Host name used for Smolder's main Apache virtual host (e.g., "cms23.foo.com"). This is the master host which provides a list of all configured Smolder instances. Often this is the hostname of the machine itself, although systems with multiple Smolder installations must choose different HostNames for each.

IPAddress

IP address used for the Smolder Apache server and FTP server. You'll need to arrange DNS to point this IPAddress at HostName.

DBUser

Name of MySQL user which is used by this CMS installation (e.g., "smolderdb"). This user will be created if it does not exist.

DBPass

MySQL user password which is used by this Smolder installation (e.g., "xyzzy"). If the MySQL user already exists this must be the correct password for the user.

What's New in This Release:
Mark tests that have files that exit with a non-zero status that use ’no_plan’ to be marked as failing - M. Peters
Allow anonymous smoke tests added to public projects - M. Peters
Added public projects - M. Peters
Upgrading to Apache 1.3.36 - M. Peters
Auto-purging of old compressed XML files by ProjectFullReportsMax config directive - M. Peters
Better caching headers for static files - M. Peters
Fixed building of SQLite on some platforms - Mark Stosberg
Searchable HTML versions of docs - M. Peters
Fixing graph generation bug when using SQLite - Sam Tregar
Compressed XML storage and acceptance during upload - M. Peters, Sam Tregar
Runtime errors sometimes being lost - Sam Tregar, M. Peters
Removed un-used mod_ssl sources and build - M. Peters