Week 0 - A Test Scheduler for the MySQL Build Farm Initiative - Mon, 10:59 PM Jun 2 2008

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS LAST WEEK

• Even though this is the start of the SoC, I have been working on MySQL testing for some time now. My research group at University of Maryland has been working on automated testing for highly configurable software, and we have been testing MySQL for awhile. Our project is called Skoll (http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/skoll/contribute/mysql.html), which automatically tests highly configurable software on distributed computing resources.

KEY TASKS THAT STALLED LAST WEEK

• Finished all my final exams and projects last week, ready to start this project full time.

KEY CONCERNS

• I contacted MySQL to get access to push-build source tar balls, so Skoll can test each "push release" of MySQL instead of each check-in. I am waiting for MySQL to provide a way to notify and distribute the tar balls when they are available.

TASKS IN THE UPCOMING WEEK

• Modify Skoll's html testing report pages to match push-build's
• Integrate some improvements to configuration modeling into Skoll (currently in different branches of Skoll code)
• Follow up on push-build tar balls access