wiki:EWSUpdates2018

EWS Updates

by Dean Johnson

  • Many requests for improvements
  • Since last year…
    • Added EWS for Security Patches
  • What’s Next?
    • Run API tests
    • Abandon on obsolete patch
    • Retry patches
    • Errors in EWS bubbles
    • Run webkitperl tests
    • Process faster
    • Historical build logs
    • More…
  • Architectural Limitations
    • 1 test = 1 build
    • 1 OS per queue config
    • Very basic UI
    • Missing usual CI features
    • Stability issues
  • Existing System
    • Requires dedicated hardware per queue
  • New System
    • Separate building and testing
      • Build (Mac-EWS-32bit, Mac-EWS-64bit, iOS-EWS…)
      • Datastore
      • Tests (Mac WK1, Mac WK2, iOS sim WK1…)
  • Benefits
    • Production-level CI system
    • Lots of shared code with build.webkit.org
    • Framework built for EWS-type tasks
    • Easy to add new configurations
    • Automattically get: real-time and historical logs, retries, easy bot management
  • Tradeoffs
    • Throwing out a lot of code and hard work
    • Time could be spent on improving the existing system
    • Buildbot UI can be less than ideal
  • Tentative Plans
    • Basic implementation for EWS server (in progress) + Buildbot (done)
    • Complete implémentation for EWS server + buildbot
    • Run in parallel with existing EWS, serving some new bubbles
  • Features @ Launch
    • Feature-parity including Security EWS
    • Easy to add new configurations
    • API tests, webkitperl tests, arm64 JSC tests
    • Build + test logs in real-time
Last modified 5 years ago Last modified on Oct 12, 2018 4:16:27 PM