RE: [Myexperiment-discuss] automated features testing

[Don Cruickshank]

Hi Franck,

 

myExperiment currently has 188 tests (with 367 assertions) which are defined using the built in test framework within Ruby on Rails.  We don’t periodically run these on the production servers, but I do generally perform the tests before committing code to the repository.  In addition to model tests, the tests include running various web pages from a mimicked web browser.

 

We do however perform periodic tests on the live server by using Nagios to report operational issues.  These include basic connectivity, disk space and that certain pages load with a page length within a given range.  One of the Nagios pages is a sanity check suite which performs various integrity checks on the database.  As an example, two of these checks are:

·         Is that there is a one to one mapping between contribution records and the workflow/file/pack records?

·         Are all workflows owned by current members of myExperiment and not to ones that have been deleted?

 

If any of the tests fail then Nagios emails us and also sends out text messages!

 

As for leveraging from myExperiment, there’s little that we do that isn’t set up from off-the-shelf components.  So I suspect the answer is probably not.

 

Cheers,

Don.

 

From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Franck Tanoh
Sent: 01 March 2010 18:04
To: address@hidden
Subject: [Myexperiment-discuss] automated features testing

 

Hello,

Does myExperiment run some automated tests from time to time to make sure all the features of the site are working fine? In addition, do you do any automated tests before every new release to make sure existing features on the site are still up and running?
I currently have to manually test every single BioCatalogue feature before any release. With the number of features growing It's becoming time consuming. I was wondering if there are anything we can leverage from myExperiment.

Thanks

Franck
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