Cyrus IMAPd 2.3.4 Released

[Ken Murchison]

Patrick Radtke wrote:
> 
> On May 25, 2006, at 6:00 AM, Robert Mueller wrote:
> 
>> 1. There's no regression testing with cyrus at all. I did try and 
>> start a cyrus regression test a while back (just a perl script to test 
>> basic IMAP functionality) but there wasn't really interest in taking 
>> it up. I still strongly believe that some form of basic regression 
>> test that is built up more and more over time is is important.
>>
> 
> I'm interested in a nice regression suite.
> I've been doing some OpenLDAP stuff recently and they have (what seems 
> like) 2 hours worth of tests that occur once you build the software.
> For a long time, I've been meaning to look at how they do it and see if 
> a similar approach could be used with Cyrus IMAPd, but other projects 
> always take a priority.
> 
> The nice thing about regression testing is that we can start small. If 
> there was some agreed upon methodology then when anyone (e.g. Ken, 
> someone submitting a patch, someone reporting a bug, etc) can create a 
> tests to show how a bug gets triggered or that new code/patch doesn't 
> introduce bugs.

I agree that a test suite is something that we need.  I'll add this to 
our TODO list. As always, code contributions are always welcome.


-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University