[Dev] functional testing prep work

[Donn Denman]

On Aug 30, 2005, at 2:29 PM, Mike Taylor wrote:

> The svn:external link would be read-only so this wouldn't offer any  
> help for that situation.  It sounds like the location of the core  
> CATS code may need to change but that is a discussion for you and  
> QA I think :)
The situation isn't ideal, but it's workable.  I plan to make it  
clear in my CATS commits which revision of Chandler it's compatible  
with.



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> On Aug 30, 2005, at 5:16 PM, Donn Denman wrote:
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>> Would this option allow committing changes to both CATS and  
>> Chandler at the same time?  Currently there's a problem -- we  
>> can't keep CATS totally in sync with Chandler, e.g. when we change  
>> a Block name that's referenced in a CATS script.
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>> On Aug 30, 2005, at 1:06 PM, Mike Taylor wrote:
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>>> It isn't optional and at the current time I don't think that is a  
>>> big concern.  The functional tests and their support files are  
>>> very small and not that many.  Later as the scope or depth of  
>>> functional testing changes then updated can be made.
>>>
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>>> On Aug 30, 2005, at 2:46 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
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>>>> At 02:23 PM 8/30/2005 -0400, Mike Taylor wrote:
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>>>>>  - add a svn:exernal "link" to chandler/tools/ directory that  
>>>>> points to http://svn.osafoundation.org/qa/chandler/CATS/  
>>>>> repository.  This will allow any chandler checkout to also grab  
>>>>> the required files to run the functional tests.
>>>>>
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>>>> Won't this force the grabbing?  i.e., I don't think  
>>>> svn:externals is optional.
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