[Opensim-dev] LSL test suite ideas

[James Hughes]

Mike Mazur wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:41:10 -0500
> krtaylor <krtaylor at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I have been putting together a few ideas on how to include more tests 
>> for LSL. I am thinking of putting together a set of scripts that
>> would systematically test all the script functionality that is
>> currently implemented.
>>     
>
> Zaki and myself have just talked about this only yesterday. We thought
> of writing a bot (pCampBot?) that could log in, create a prim with one
> script. The script in its touch_start() event would call the one
> function you want to test and spit out the result in chat. Presumably
> the bot could verify the message against a predefined expected message,
> and report on its success. (I just realized the state_entry() event
> could be used as a setup routine.)
>
> The downside to this is you're depending on much of the underlying
> script engine implementation to be correct for the llFunction() under
> test to return the correct result. So a test failure could indicate
> either a bug in the function implementation or somewhere else in the
> scripting engine.
>
> Using a bot has a few benefits, such as being able to log in to
> multiple grids with the same client and the ability to set up a
> comprehensive automation network with email reports, etc.
>
> Thoughts on this?
>
> Mike
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>   
something like this worked well for hardware compatibility testing in a 
past job.

TestBots++

<j>