Forum OpenACS Development: Docker container auto-build

A) I can provide a hook to auto generate the openacs docker container upon code commits (as I am not sure how to subscribe to bitbucket from Gitlab / Github / Dockerhub). Then the containers could be auto updated if a commit is made into the master or oacs-5-10 branch.

B) Is there a way / best practice to trigger the testing of OpenACS installation from the command line or a single TCL command, so I can integrate this into a Gitlab CI/CD pipeline? Not entirely sure how USEFUL that is going to be in the end given the high quality of the framework, but I wondered nevertheless.

(We write our own test scripts for project-open now in cypress.io as we primarily test the frontend and API calls, so are not relying on acs-automated-testing).

Is there a way / best practice to trigger the testing of OpenACS installation from the command line or a single Tcl command...

Several years ago, i wrote a script for sending a single command or a script to nsd via nscp. Under nscp one can run arbitrary Tcl/OpenACS commands, but there is no connection. This script can be used to control a NaviServer instance either via command line or via cron job.

OpenACS testing is build around the web interface, so one needs a way to collect the output in a useful way. Since the test results are written into the database, it should be possible to trigger the start of the test run this way and to collect later the test results from the DB.