[Scummvm-devel] Game testings

[Eugene Sandulenko]

> On 21 May 2016, at 13:37, Thierry Crozat <criezy at scummvm.org> wrote:
> 
> Finishing the work on the Event Recorder and thus allowing automatic testing would help.
Indeed it could help. The only still unresolved problem is that it goes out of sync easily. Maybe something very simple is missing. 

> Also I would like to go a bit further. I have no experience with databases and web site design.
I have a hope, that it is quite possible to reuse the Dosbox code. That would be the best solution for us in terms of traceability and operational overhead. 

>   - Add the information on the game pages on the wiki
There it could be tough to track. 

>   - Or create a new wiki page to centralise the information on a single page
I like this idea more, though this page might eventually grow big. 

>   - Or add the information on the game pages on the wiki and use the DPL extension to also automatically gather all the information on one page (as we do with the platform page (http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Platforms). One issue with this approach is that the automatically generated page may be slow to access.
Even the current Platforms page is quite slow. It most probably turn unbearable with something like 50+ pages to gather info from. 

>   - Or create a new page on the web site.
That will be painful to update as it will involve got commits. 

> If the idea proves popular I will start implementing it around mid-June. Of course volunteers are welcome as well. And maybe a better alternative idea will emerge.
The idea is great and long needed. The problem I see with your approach is that somebody has to manually move this information to a centralised place.

Thus I could probably eventually try to look into the approach with the DB, it is quite straightforward to implement. But in the meantime starting gathering this information now is very much needed. 

Thank you for raising this. 

Unfortunately for 1.8.1 we had only one volunteer joining the testing. The approaches we started in 2009 and enthusiasm of the users obviously did not last till now, so we have to seek other options. 


Eugene