[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] generic training serverwith predictable data

[George Tuttle]

Dan,

 

Sample data sets?  In the words of Gary Coleman, "What you talking about
Willis?"

 

George the Librarian

Piedmont Regional Library System

Winder, GA

 

.Rather than having this data sitting just on a training server RSCEL, I
think it would be much more useful to have the sample data sets
available as part of the Evergreen source. This would enable every
Evergreen install to (optionally) have a reference set of data to work
with locally. We could build documentation / training based on those
sample sets of data, but also build tests on those sample sets of data
to ensure that the SQL schema hasn't been broken & the data can actually
load, a given server is working as expected, and that a given report
returns the expected results, and that a given API call generates the
expected effects.

This could also be a useful basis on which to build tests of the
migration scripts.

I do think that having an up-to-date training server always at the ready
would be a valuable thing and support that goal; I just think that it's
potentially more important to have a canonical set of sample data
available as part of the Evergreen source.

 

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