Hi Jonathan,

I never thought of SmalltalkCI for that (I use Gitlab) but in essence
it still requires a trial and error approach (of committing the
Baseline and loading it afterwards to see if it works).

Metacello has a "record" operation that basically does a dry run of
the load, but I don't know if there is a way to do it using the
Baseline in the image instead of one in a repository.

Regards!

Esteban A. Maringolo

On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 10:10 AM Jonathan van Alteren
<jvalteren@objectguild.com> wrote:

Hi Esteban,

You might want to give smalltalkCI a try: https://github.com/hpi-swa/smalltalkCI

I've recently started using it myself, with GitLab CI and GitHub Actions, but one of the cool things is that you can use it to test your build locally.

For example, create a .smalltalk.ston file for your project which loads the baseline that you want to test, like this:

SmalltalkCISpec {
#loading : [
SCIMetacelloLoadSpec {
#baseline : 'MyProject',
#directory : 'source',
#load : [ 'default' ],
#onWarningLog : true,
#platforms : [ #pharo ]
}
],
#testing : {
#categories : [ 'MyProject-Tests' ]
}
}

Then clone the smalltalkCI repo locally and open a terminal on its location, for example /Users/johndoe/git/smalltalkCI. You can then simply use smalltalkCI to build a Pharo image of your baseline, which effectively tests the correct working of your baseline:

bin/smalltalkci -s "Pharo64-8.0" /Users/johndoe/git/MyProject/.smalltalk.ston

By default, it will run all tests in the image, but you can change the list of tests being run by modifying the .smalltalk.ston file accordingly (see https://github.com/hpi-swa/smalltalkCI#testcase-selection).

Hope this helps!

Kind regards,

Jonathan van Alteren

Founding Member | Object Guild B.V.
Sustainable Software for Purpose-Driven Organizations

jvalteren@objectguild.com
On 27 Aug 2020, 04:12 +0200, Esteban Maringolo <emaringolo@gmail.com>, wrote:

Hi,

How can I check that my baseline works without having to publish
everything, check that it fails and then going to the origin, fixing,
etc?

I might be particularly idiot to always miss something, I usually have
to try at least four times (in a blank image) that my Baseline,
dependencies, etc. works as expected.

There must be some other way.

Esteban A. Maringolo