Test building the virtualenvs on Travis

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 2a422bdc..58202c03 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -8,8 +8,14 @@ before_install:
 
 script:
   - mkdir -p /home/travis/build/alan-turing-institute/analysis/output
-  # create results (tables/figures) in the docker container
-  # note that we consider the build successful if there is no difference 
-  # between the results in the repo and that generated by travis. An exception 
-  # are the pdf files, which often differ due to different latex versions etc.
+    # create results (tables/figures) in the docker container note that we 
+    # consider the build successful if there is no difference between the 
+    # results in the repo and that generated by travis. An exception are the 
+    # pdf files, which often differ due to different latex versions etc.
   - docker run -v /home/travis/build/alan-turing-institute/analysis/output:/TCPDBench/analysis/output alan-turing-institute/tcpdbench /bin/bash -c "make clean && make results && git checkout ./analysis/output/rankplots/*.pdf && git diff --exit-code"
+    # Test that the virtual environments can be created. The virtualenvs are 
+    # needed to run the experiments using the same package versions as used in 
+    # the paper. Since these may depend on external (third-party) packages, 
+    # they can potentially be fragile to unexpected changes, so we want to 
+    # make sure we're notified when they no longer build correctly.
+  - docker run alan-turing-institute/tcpdbench /bin/bash -c "make venvs"