Re: [go-nuts] Continuous Integration

A bit OT, but for nice tests results you can
try https://bitbucket.org/tebeka/go2xunit

nice one ! I've built a small bash script to almost do the same (with much
less features), I'll try it ASAP. (even maybe integrate within "gpk test"
as an xunit output option. )

My personal "solution" is:

1/ build a cross platform go env on a single node. It's always much easier
to build everything on a single slave. Then test on every platform (build
once, run anywhere, right ?)

2/ to solve the go get nightmare, I've build a tool gopack ( available at
github.com/gopack/gpk )
then everything gets smooth:
on a jenkins freestyle project, my script looks like

"
#step 1 simple compile to fail fast on big mistakes
gpk c # compile the project, including the dependencies)
gpk t # run every tests
if $0 then exit $0 # fail if unit test failed

#step 2 cross compile everything
GOOS="windows" GOARCH=amd64 gpk c
GOOS="linux" GOARCH=amd64 gpk c
...

#( gpk c is about to have an option to also compile the test executables)

#step 3 push the src, and all executables to a LAN server
gpk push server ... # push all the executables, and the sources into the
gopack "team" server (just a computer running "gpk serve"
"

and that's it 3 simple steps, to build and unit test

the fourth step is to start a multiple node project, that wget all test
executable ( the gpk serve offers this kind of service) and to execute them.
(no go dependencies on the test nodes, great !)

caveat: step 1 to 3 are already working, but i'm currently working on the
ability to compile test executables (this still need to be done "by hand"
go test does not provide a nice command like go test -c ./src/...
unfortunately )
but the feature should be done by the end of the month, (or you can help me
doing it ) I'm also unsure of how wget should ask for tests (should the
server autodetect the platform in the http request ? )