Question

I run sudo svn --username radek update ".$codebase." --force"; from my php script (on SuSE) every night before automation testing starts. So the testing is done on the latest code that was checked in today.

How can I for sure know that svn up finished successfully? So in case it wasn’t the testing is not triggered?

Answer 1

From the command line, I usually run svn status -q which should print nothing if everything is up to date. Otherwise, it will either error out, or display what files haven’t been updated yet.

As others have mentioned, svn up should return a non-zero value if it failed for any particular reason.

You should look into using a continuous build system like Jenkins. You could have Jenkins run your tests with every commit, or automatically have it run at a particular time during the day. This way, you’re not reinventing the wheel. Plus, Jenkins could email the test results and give you a place to display them.