Re: Ofbiz Test Automation Services Offered

["David E. Jones" <jo...@hotwaxmedia.com>]

Harry,

For now the best thing is to probably wait for the upcoming  
developers conference (Mar 5-9) as testing is one of the big topics  
that seems to be of interest and we'll hopefully flesh out more  
testing infrastructure and such then.

-David


On Jan 30, 2007, at 5:58 AM, Harry Dhillon - Worldtestlabs wrote:

> There is much work to be done - If you have any test related  
> documentation, strategy, plans, scripts or thoughts, please do  
> forward details/links/documents and I will initiate a high-level  
> review to determine what we have, where ofbiz is currently, where  
> you'd like to take it, and start developing a test strategy to  
> support that.
> I'd be happy to meet in or around London to discuss this further,
>
> Kind regards
>
> Harry
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David E. Jones [mailto:jonesde@hotwaxmedia.com]
> Sent: Tue 1/30/2007 2:45 AM
> To: hd
> Subject: Re: Ofbiz Test Automation Services Offered
>
>
> Harry,
>
> It would be great to work with you and others there on this! We
> really need contributions in this area.
>
> A fair amount of infrastructure has been developed for testing in
> OFBiz, and the design in general is very granular, split into
> traditional enterprise architecture tiers, and both white- and black-
> box testable.
>
> The current testing infrastructure is made for test configuration and
> scripts that can go into the code repository and be run from the
> command line through the same startup jar that is normally used to
> run OFBiz (unless it is deployed in an external application server,
> of course). It is based on JUnit so that it is easy to plug in JUnit
> tests or anything that uses the JUnit interfaces, and for some test
> sets it would even be possible to run the tests from a JUnit client
> app. This is also designed to allow the tests to be included in each
> OFBiz component to that a new component added into OFBiz can not only
> have classpath entries, entity info, service info, webapps, etc but
> they can also have test suites that are run with the rest for general
> and regression tests.
>
> Anyway, we talked a bit about testing at the last OFBiz User
> Conference in November of last year. Based on that and other
> discussions we are planning on spending to some good time at the
> upcoming OFBiz developers conference (a sort of 1 week hackathon, if
> you will) to flesh this out and create a number of example test
> artifacts.
>
> The trick after that will be getting a nice test suite put together
> for as much of OFBiz as possible!
>
> As I said before we could really use help in this area. We'll
> definitely need help when we are ready to create the comprehensive
> test suite, but even before then we would appreciate feedback on
> testing tools and processes.
>
> -David
>
>
> On Jan 29, 2007, at 6:57 AM, Harry Dhillon - Worldtestlabs wrote:
>
>> David/Andrew,
>>
>> All and more is my answer, although initial focus will be on
>> building integrated and automated test strategies for ofbiz
>> adopters - being more business/industry centric than dev/tech
>> centric. By building a suite of converged data, network and
>> telephony tests, we can build exacting models to better
>> implementation and use of ofbiz and feed these back into the
>> development cycle when proven, reducing regression times for all.
>>
>> I suppose the key question is, have any test consultants really
>> analysed ofbiz for testability and the like? That may be our key
>> starting point. If ofbiz needs quality steering and strengthening,
>> we can help a great deal, through our test services.
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Harry
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David E. Jones [mailto:jonesde@hotwaxmedia.com]
>> Sent: Fri 1/26/2007 11:46 AM
>> To: hd
>> Subject: Re: Ofbiz Test Automation Services Offered
>>
>>
>> Harry,
>>
>> Just to make it clear: any answer the Andrew's question is fine. If
>> you're interested in helping with OFBiz development, that's great. If
>> you're a service provider you might want to add your listing to the
>> new service provider page which is now on the wiki (used to be
>> committer controlled on the web site). All you need is to create an
>> account and then edit the page to add your listing here:
>>
>> http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/JAM
>>
>> Anyway, it's great to hear that you're working with OFBiz. I do
>> travel to London on occasion for business, perhaps we can have dinner
>> or a weekend lunch or something at some point in the future?
>>
>> -David
>>
>>
>> On Jan 25, 2007, at 2:13 PM, Andrew Sykes wrote:
>>
>>> Harry,
>>>
>>> I wasn't clear exactly what you meant by "If anyone would like to
>>> work
>>> with us".
>>>
>>> I'm guessing one of these three...
>>> 1/ You were advertising a service.
>>> 2/ You're looking to opensource your work so far.
>>> 3/ You're looking for help to progress your work.
>>> -- 
>>> Kind Regards
>>> Andrew Sykes <an...@sykesdevelopment.com>
>>> Sykes Development Ltd
>>> http://www.sykesdevelopment.com
>>>
>>
>>
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