[LRUG] The August Meeting

[Matthew Rudy Jacobs]

2009/7/20 Tom Lea <lrug at tomlea.co.uk>

> I used to do the same... and BOOM (in a CI fail sense) is what usually
> happens.
> Sometimes I do:
>   while work_still_to_do?
> - code
>  - commit
> - run the tests I think will have changed locally
>   run: git fetch && git checkout master && (git merge my_feature && rake &&
> git push && cap qa deploy && nabaztag-say 'card_owner... ... Please check
> my_feature in qa') || (git reset --hard origin/master && git
> checkout my_feature && nabaztag-say 'Get back to work Tom... ... you are not
> as good as you think you are'
>
> then take a 15min break.
>
> The real difference here is that I get to take more breaks.
>

I just take the breaks anyway.

B00M
big-biscuit-belly!


>
> On 20 Jul 2009, at 15:21, Matthew Rudy Jacobs wrote:
>
> My approach is;
>
> - run the tests I think will have changed locally
> - run all the tests every time on CI
>
> B00M!
>
> 2009/7/20 Matt Wynne <matt at mattwynne.net>
>
>>
>> On 17 Jul 2009, at 12:03, Paul Battley wrote:
>>
>>  2009/7/17 Matt Wynne <matt at mattwynne.net>:
>>>
>>>> I'd quite like to spread the word about my lazy Cucumber runner:
>>>> http://github.com/mattwynne/cucover/tree/master
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's a great idea. I just tried it out. Unfortunately, it seems to
>>> make everything run so slowly that I'd be better off just running all
>>> the features ...
>>>
>>> Paul.
>>>
>>
>> Yes... unfortunately it's more of a proof of concept right now - I don't
>> use it myself day-to-day as too much of our stuff runs out of process for me
>> to be able to use it reliably. But I had noticed about the speed - I'm not
>> sure how much that's unavoidable RCov overhead and how much is my naive
>> first-pass implementation which is chattering away to disk all the time.
>>
>> If you have a significant number of features though, focussed regression
>> runs are a big time-saver, especially when you're refactoring and lose track
>> of what you might have broken. That's the theory anyway... :)
>>
>> cheers,
>> Matt Wynne
>>
>> http://mattwynne.net
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>>
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