[Buildbot-devel] Purpose of buildbot.status.web.tests?

[Stefan Seefeld]

On 11/03/2009 03:41 PM, Brian Warner wrote:
>
> This was intended to support the "Problem Tracking" feature that I
> always wanted but never got around to implementing. The idea would be to
> record fine-grained machine-parseable test results, instead of just a
> single full-suite SUCCESS/FAILURE and some unparseable logfiles. Then
> other tools could ask questions like "how frequently does
> buildbot.test.test_slaves.LatentSlave.testSequence fail?", or look for
> transitions from passing to failing and correlate them with the Changes
> that went into it.
>    

There are already tools that allow this (one of those I happen to be the 
maintainer of: http://qmtest.com). I believe it would be better to keep 
that functionality separate from what buildbot has to offer.

     Stefan

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