[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Continuous Integration

[Michael Hale < >]

+1 for your summary

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Andrew Shafer 
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> Here's my thinking at this point... which could be wrong on every level.
> There is really no good way to TDD/BDD configuration management for several
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> The recipes are already relatively declarative
> Mocking is useless because it may not reflect 'ground truth'
> The cycle times to really test convergence are relatively long
> Trying to test if a package is installed or not is testing the framework,
> not the recipe IMHO.
> I agree with the general sentiment that the functional service is the true
> test.
> I'm leaning towards 'testing' at that level, ideally with (a superset of?)
> what should be used for the production monitoring system.
> So the CI builds services, runs all the checks in test, green can go live
> and that's that.
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