[Desktop_architects] [cairo] Automated testing of Cairo

[Mike Shaver]

On Aug 16, 2006, at 4:57 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> All inter-machine communication in Crucible is done through a  
> networked
> file system.  I use NFS for this, which isn't very well suited for
> handling remote test machines.  Thus, it'd be easiest if a machine  
> could
> just be plunked down in the OSDL network.

Mmm, yeah, I imagine so.  It's easier for me to get machines and  
admins elsewhere, but I bet we can figure something out.

> However, since the machines are just communicating via a file  
> system, in
> theory anything allowing network file sharing should do.  RDP and VNC
> are probably overkill for this; WebDAV ought to be sufficient.
>
> The main consideration is security.  While we keep the test systems
> outside our company firewall, I'd prefer to ensure access is  
> limited to
> machines I specifically know about.

Understood; we could provide a fixed IP address and use an SSL client  
cert to lock down the connection.

I've got a machine that we could use to test this on, and I suspect I  
can get someone to help with the setup.  It's already configured to  
build Mozilla, so it shouldn't be _too_ hard to get it running and  
building the cairo stuff distinctly.  I'll get that going, and  
connect them with you off-line (and you, if you'd like, Carl!) to see  
if we can work it out.  I'm quite keen to see the tests running well  
on Win32, so I'd love to help out here.

Mike