Continuous integration may help to do some quality assurance in a automated way.

Using JUnit, Jenkins and maven you could have a little web server working as a qa specialist for the project.

This could be the typical workflow:

Something triggers the integration (daily?, after a submit?, after dependency changes?),

Checkout fresh sources from the repository,

Run findbugs and any other task to do static analysis,

Compile the sources,

Run test suites (test classes, check expected from tutorials, etc),

Package an snapshot jar,
Build a static site and deploy it in webserver showing the status, stats, etc.
Deploy the jar in a website,

Any broken step may be reported by email,

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Raymond Shpeley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I've started on the application examples for basic operation, since I don't know
much about how they work yet. The process I'm using is to run an example, save
out.stat under a name suited to the example, save the console the same way,
record the command line options, out.stat filename and console filename to a
summary file for all run variants I can find of that example type. If I find an issue
with warning errors or some such I record a mention of it in the summary file.

This is kind of tedious to do by hand so I've thought of running it on our
university server with a script to automate it. The problem is I'm currently holed
up on a farm during reading week and internet access is spotty, or even non-
existent, depending on the sun-spots...

I don't know if this is enough information to do much good, but it should check for
any obvious errors.

-- ray

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