secondlife / secondlife/viewer

Create automated viewer regression test that targets low end hardware

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Description

The full roadmap proposal for potato farm is at https://github.com/secondlife/roadmap/issues/339. The ultimate goal of the project is to allow automated regression testing using a flexible automation framework that allows us to capture performance, graphics appearance, or other types of information from viewer sessions triggered by GHA, and to make it easy to compare results across hosts, viewer versions, and specific runs.

The first step (Phase 0) is to get viewer sessions running reliably under GHA without assuming any special automation infrastructure in the viewer - see how far we can get with just a command line:

  • GHA triggers a viewer session using a specified viewer build, runner, and command line
  • Files generated by the run (SecondLife.log, preferences, image snapshots, etc) are captured as artifacts from GHA

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Read the full roadmap proposal in roadmap issue 339 first, then examine how GHA can launch a specified viewer build, runner, and command line. Done means a viewer session runs reliably under GHA without special viewer automation infrastructure, with SecondLife.log, preferences, image snapshots, and other generated files captured as artifacts.

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Assessment

Tech stack
github-actions
Domain
ci-cd, devops, testing-qa
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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