Initiating Failures

Hi,
Does anyone have any good tricks for making OpenDeploy fail?

Testing a successful deployment is easy - it works but trying to deliberatly initiate a failed deployment (so I can test my failure handling and rollback code) is a bit of a head-ache.

I'm guessing most people handle deployment failures through workflow, or via state="rollback" DnR tasks so how do you test them?

Cheers

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kaalraa

Hi,
Does anyone have any good tricks for making OpenDeploy fail?

Testing a successful deployment is easy - it works but trying to deliberatly initiate a failed deployment (so I can test my failure handling and rollback code) is a bit of a head-ache.

I'm guessing most people handle deployment failures through workflow, or via state="rollback" DnR tasks so how do you test them?

Cheers

Sometimes we do use incorrect target paths, on which the credentials (usr/pwd) being provided by Admin does not have access to deploy.

HTH

Adam Stoller

Hi,
Does anyone have any good tricks for making OpenDeploy fail?

Testing a successful deployment is easy - it works but trying to deliberatly initiate a failed deployment (so I can test my failure handling and rollback code) is a bit of a head-ache.

I'm guessing most people handle deployment failures through workflow, or via state="rollback" DnR tasks so how do you test them?

Cheers

There are all sorts of different failure modes:

There may be some more - but all of the above are certainly test-able