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This book is organised as three sub-books; getting started, writing tests and reference.
The Megatest project was started for two reasons, the first was an immediate and pressing need for a generalized tool to manage a suite -of regression tests and the second was the fact that I had written or -maintained several such tools at different companies over the years -and it seemed a good thing to have a single open source tool, flexible -enough to meet the needs of any team doing continuous integrating and -or running a complex suite of tests for release qualification.
Megatest is intended to provide the minimum needed resources to make -writing a suite of tests and implementing continuous build for -software, design engineering or process control (via owlfs for +writing a suite of tests and tasks for implementing continuous build +for software, design engineering or process control (via owlfs for example) without being specialized for any specific problem space. Megatest in of itself does not know what constitutes a PASS or FAIL of a test. In most cases megatest is best used in conjunction with logpro or a similar tool to parse, analyze and decide on the test outcome.
Note: This road-map is tentative and subject to change without notice.
+Rerun step and or subsequent steps from gui +
++Refresh test area files from gui +
++Clean and re-run button +
++Clean up STATE and STATUS handling. +
++Dashboard and Test control panel are reverse order - choose and fix +
++Move seldom used states and status to drop down selector +
++Access test control panel when clicking on Run Summary tests +
++Feature: -generate-index-tree +
++Change specifing of state and status to use STATE1/STATUS1,STATE2/STATUS2 +
++http api available for use with Perl, Ruby etc. scripts +
++megatest.config setup entries for: +
++run launching (e.g. /bin/sh %CMD% > /dev/null) +
++browser "konqueror %FNAME% +
++Mark dependent tests for clean/rerun -rerun-downstream +
++On run start check for defunct tests in RUNNING, LAUNCHED or REMOTEHOSTSTART and correct or notify +
++Fix: refresh of gui sometimes fails on last item (race condition?) +
++refdb: Add export of csv, json and sexp +
++Convert to using call-with-environment-variables where possible. Should allow handling of parallel runs in same process. +
++Re-work text interface wizards. Several bugs on record. Possibly convert to gui based. +
++Add to testconfig requirements section; launchlimiter scriptname, calls scriptname to check if ok to launch test +
++Refactor Run Summary view, currently very clumsy +
++Add option to show steps in Run Summary view +
++Refactor guis for resizeablity +
++Add filters to Run Summary view and Run Control view +
++Add to megatest.config or testconfig; rerunok STATE/STATUS,STATE/STATUS… +
++Quality improvements +
++Server stutters occasionally +
++Large number of items or tests still has some issues. +
++Code refactoring +
++Replace remote process with true API using json (supports Web app also) +
++Streamline the gui +
++Everything resizable +
++Less clutter +
++Tool tips +
++Filters on Run Summary, Summary and Run Control panel +
++Built in log viewer (partially implemented) +
++Refactor the test control panel +
++Help and documentation +
++Complete the user manual (I’ve been working on this lately). +
++Online help in the gui +
++Streamlined install +
++Deployed version (download a location independent ready to run binary bundle) +
++Install Makefile (in progress, needed for Mike to install on VMs) +
++Added option to compile IUP (needed for VMs) +
++Server side run launching +
++Support for re-running, cleaning etc. of individual steps (ezsteps makes this very easy to implement). +
++Launch process needs built in daemonizing (easy to do, just need to test it thoroughly). +
++Wizards for creating tests, regression areas (current ones are text only and limited). +
++Fully functional built in web service (currently you can browse runs but it is very simplistic). +
++Wildcards in runconfigs: e.g. [p1271/9/%/%] +
++Gui panels for editing megatest.config and runconfigs.config +
++Fully isolated tests (no use of NFS to see regression area files) +
++Windows version +
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