[asterisk-dev] About asterisk development plans

[Leif Madsen]

John Lange wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 10:44 -0400, Mihai Balea wrote:
>> As far as I know, there is no test harness, so it's not surprising  
>> that regressions pop up as often as they do.
> 
> I think this is the most important point. There should be a test bench
> that automatically confirms every (supported) feature is working before
> it's released. If the process was automated then it shouldn't take that
> long to run the tests.
> 
> Obviously there would be a significant amount of work to get it setup
> the first time but after that, by definition, there shouldn't be changes
> required to test a stable branch.
> 
> I'm picturing two Asterisk boxes with a combination of FXO, FXS, and PRI
> cards along with sip client testing software (sipp).


And that's the point -- it is a significant amount of work, and all developers 
currently working on Asterisk are already taxed 100%. There are no additional 
resources left over to build this test suite. And it can't be trivial either, 
because someone else would have built it already.

Leif Madsen.