Comments on: Version control your automated tests, quickly, easily, today for free

By: Alister Scott

Alister Scott — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:57:59 +0000

Thanks Jeff.

By: Alister Scott

Alister Scott — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:57:27 +0000

Thanks Tim.
There are benefits of using a SVN server, namely security, if you are in a small team like me this doesn’t justify the need for a server.
As described above you can see commit logs with Windows usernames which is enough for us.

By: Jeffrey Fredrick

Jeffrey Fredrick — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:26:44 +0000

Alister, couldn’t agree with you more on the need to treat automated tests the way you’d treat any other source code.

By: AnthillPro Blog

AnthillPro Blog — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:23:15 +0000

Version control your automated tests…

Alister Scott of the open source testing project Watir (pronounced “water”) has published a short little how-to on getting your automated tests committed to Subversion. Alister starts with the surprising observations that lots of testing ……

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:52:06 +0000

As weird as it seems, I didn’t realise you could set up an SVN repository just off a file system. I’ve always gone the whole hog and installed LAMP or WAMP to support.

For some reasons, big companies will enforce version control for development activities but not for testing. I assume this is a general lack of maturity in the Australian testing scene. It also doesn’t help that some tool vendors only half support versioning in their test products e.g. QTP but not loadrunner.

Thanks for sharing this and encouraging other testers to consider version control.