Unittesting via Grml?

[Michael Prokop]

* Michael Tautschnig <mt at debian.org> [Wed Mar 31, 2010 at 05:48:20PM +0200]:

> > recently we started to work towards unittests for Grml
> > (http://grml.org/ - a Debian based live system which ships and
> > uses FAI as part of the grml-live buildsystem).

> > Our unittests provide a way to be able to test low-level stuff like
> > partitioning, installation and deployment and as FAI is part of Grml
> > already it might be an interesting way to get unittests for FAI.

> This is *really cool*!!!

:)

> In fact, Henning (Sprang) and I discussed this a while ago but
> none of us found the time to effectively start implementing
> something like this.

Yeah, I've talked to Henning (and Thomas too) regarding this
issue as well.

> > If you're interested in it find the details in:

> >   http://ml.grml.org/pipermail/grml-devel/2010-March/000023.html

> > If anyone of you is motivated to write test scripts for automating
> > some usual FAI tasks you can count with my help. (I plan to write
> > unit tests for the dirinstall feature of FAI on my own.)

> > Please provide feedback and let us know if you need any assistance
> > or have suggestions regarding our unittest framework.

> We also discussed that at least two more aspects would be important:

> - Documentation. Where could we find the results, what do they look like, etc.

I think that's something that will grow, improve and evolve over the
time while we're working on it within Grml itself.

> - Automation. Full automation. Ideally, we would have some server doing the
>   tests after each and every commit (or daily, or whatever granularity fits
>   best).

Sure, that's something I'd like to see for Grml as well.

> At the last FAI workshop we also tried to setup something similar, but back then
> KVM wasn't quite stable. Anyway, you might want to have a look at
> people/michael/features/kvm_fai_tester in the SVN.

Ah.

> Please please keep us posted on your progress with the dirinstall testing stuff:
> I'm too busy to work on this right now, but I'm really interested in testing
> solutions for FAI.

Will do.

regards,
-mika-
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