[Cosmo-dev] Re: [Scooby-dev] Issue with same tools in multiple products.

[Mike Taylor]

I can see the issue you are talking about but I feel another issue will 
happen if we move the testing tool to a new location.  We would have to 
treat it like an external project and bring into play all that would 
entails:

	- project space (svn, docs, etc)
	- release cycle
	- testing across all products for each release
	- updating Cosmo and Scooby for each new release

Currently I don't know if HTTPTest is ready for that and I wonder if 
the time spent doing the above equals the time maintaining two copies 
(knowing that it will be merged later).

Part of my concern is that having it as a standalone project will force 
Cosmo's HTTPTest to worry about Scooby's HTTPTest requirements and 
vice-versa and that may be premature.

Once the OSAF Eco-system Testing Tool has been defined and setup as 
it's own project then I think we can take the two HTTPTest parts and 
the Chandler test framework part and start figuring out how to merge 
them.

On Jun 7, 2006, at 9:51 PM, Mikeal Rogers wrote:

> So we have a good problem, well good that we're far enough along that 
> it is a problem.
>
> As we're nearing end to end testing across the products we've quickly 
> started to use the same tools and frameworks in multiple products. 
> Since traditionally our process has been to keep functional testing 
> tools in each products svn repository we've encountered some technical 
> and process issues.
>
> 1.) People working on a given tool or framework may have different 
> commit privileges in one product than another.
> 2.) If a tool or framework is used in two products then we have to do 
> two separate commits and maintain all the same files in two 
> repositories.
>
> Our current issue is that a tool I originally wrote for cosmo, 
> HTTPTest, is now being used by adam to develop a tool for scooby 
> testing, JSONTest. Since it lives in the cosmo repository he can't 
> commit changes to it and I can't easily merge his changes in while I'm 
> working on the same files to extend testing for cosmo.
>
> Going forward we will be writing a very large framework that will be 
> used by nearly every tool OSAF QA uses to test all products so this 
> issue needs to be solved in a broader context than just our current 
> problem with HTTPTest.
>
> I'm open to any and all ideas for solving this problem.
>
> -Mikeal
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