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[edit] Quality Assurance tools

Christian hosts continuous integration results

• http://pear.cweiske.de/
• http://pear.cweiske.de/unittests-cvs/overview.htm
• http://pear.cweiske.de/overview.htm

[edit] How to test a new PEAR release

Before releasing a new version of PEAR, we need to make sure it runs on as many systems as possible. It's pretty easy:

1. Install the new PEAR (1.7.0RC2 currently):

pear upgrade -f PEAR

2. Make sure you have the XML_RPC package:

pear upgrade XML_RPC

3. Checkout pear-core from CVS to get the tests:

cvs -d :pserver:cvsread@cvs.php.net:/repository checkout pear-core

4. Run the tests:

cd pear-core/tests && pear run-tests -r

Tell pear-qa@lists.php.net if you got failures, and if, which tests did not pass. We will come back to you in that case.

[edit] Common pitfalls

1. Make sure that PHP is compiled with tokenizer support (--enable-tokenizer). On most systems this is default, but on Gentoo Linux for instance, you need to enable the tokenizer USE flag.
2. For some tests the executable php-cgi is needed. In some Linux distributions this is contained in a separate package, but on for instance Gentoo Linux this has to be enabled using the cgi USE flag.
3. If running on linux, do not run the tests as root