[Dev] Status update please

[Frank Cohen]

Thanks for the status update, especially on your day off! See below  
for my comments. -Frank



On Apr 16, 2007, at 11:10 AM, William Martinez wrote:

> Hi All.
>
> 1. TestNodes is running on Axis, and it is now working with TestMaker.
> 2. SoapUI is in tm5/lib/soapui, and now has startup for unix/ 
> windows machines. Still need to be tested on Mac.


Let's get #1 and #2 verified on my system on Tuesday morning.


> 3. We are able to parse TG4W XML output, but still have to decide  
> if fixing the HTMLUnit code to execute it, construct our own using  
> TOOL or generate a Jython Agent.


Is the HTTPUnit code not executing? My preference would be to output  
a Jython agent that uses HTTPUnit calls.



> 4. As posted to the group, SNMP is an option to construct the  
> monitor, but it requires the user to configure the OIDs depending  
> on the machine, install and execute the SNMP service/daemon/server,  
> and the available info's granularity is not as fine.
> 5. The SNMP was added to the timeline along with the rest of  
> features to complete Tm5.


I opened tm5/docs/TM5 Improvement Plan V1.MPP to find the updated  
timeline. I think this is an older MPP file. It does not show the  
SNMP items. Would you please confirm committing the update? Thanks.



> Installer: Izpack is the Open Source installer I see offers most  
> for the project. It still requires a launcher in windows in case  
> windows does not have a JRE installed. Any other installer you may  
> know we can check it out.


IzPack looks good to me.




>
> I tested and embedded JRE 6 in TM5 and it worked, I even ran some  
> javascript scripts called from Jython itself. TM5 can run scripts  
> but it will need adjustments to the editor, the agent runner and  
> the properties files to control the extensions to figure out the  
> script type to execute.  Problem is the JRE adds 150+ megs to TM5


I expected TestMaker 5 to be large. TM 4.4 is at 24.5 Mbytes. Add to  
it the JRE, SOAPUI, TestGen4Web and you probably have a 200 Mbyte  
download. Oh well! I'm ok with it being that big.



> We can install the TG4W plug in into FireFox, but still have no  
> info of embedding FireFox into TM5. It seems we either distribute  
> the FireFox install with TM5 or make it required for the TM5 users  
> to install on their own.

My preference is for a great out-of-the-box experience and that may  
mean installing Firefox and the TestGen4Web plug-in ourselves.

By the way, Firefox checks for new versions of TestGen4Web. We need  
to remove that to make sure TestMaker users are using our version of  
TestGen4Web. We also need to change the SpikeSource and TestGen4Web  
logos to PushToTest (with credit to SpikeSource, of course.)


Thanks for the update.

-Frank





>
> William
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:01:19 -0700
>  Frank Cohen <fcohen at pushtotest.com> wrote:
>> Hi William: I'm back from vacation and eager to move TestMaker 5   
>> closer to completion. We talked last week about the following  
>> next  deliverables:
>> 1) testnodes running
>> 2) soapui distribution in tm5/lib/soapui directory and fix for   
>> running on linux/mac
>> 3) Check on TestGen4Web and the Yython agent generator.
>> 4) Add the Monitor (for Linux and Mac OS X) to the project timeline.
>> 5) Check on SNMP support for the Monitor
>> After these it seems like we have the following to finish TM5:
>> <crlevel> and messagesize repeat
>> <arguments>
>> <logs>
>> <notifications>
>> controller: pause, stop
>> new logger
>> installer (tm, testnode, monitor, firefox w/testgen4web, soapui, jre)
>> Would you please update the group on your status.
>> Thanks.
>> -Frank
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