I’d like to suggest that we add a discussion topic to
the upcoming Planning Council in January:
- Testing framework for Eclipse
projects – What interest is there among the projects for shared
infrastructure to run their project-specific tests against (a subset of)
the configurations supported by the Eclipse project (aka platform)? Today
we have a situation where a combination of platform developers and 3rd
parties (e.g., the BEA JRockit team) collectively certify the platform
acceptance suite, but ignore all the other projects. The other projects
typically do not have the time, money, or hardware resources to
independently certify themselves against the platforms, and rely on a
combination of developers using popular platforms and luck. WTP would
certainly benefit from some shared resources and would be likely to spend
some time running its tests on different configurations if there were
hardware/OS setups available to do that. Is this a common interest? If so,
how could we proceed on it (new project, hardware donations from member
companies, requesting IT support from EMO, etc.)?
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