[Mageia-dev] isocheck, quick basic checks for built ISOs

Fri Dec 16 20:29:30 CET 2011

Hello there,
+
+Damien and I uploaded soft/isocheck
+(http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/isocheck/trunk/) several days ago. It
+tests for basic rule-based things in a built ISO (name, size,
+checksums, headers, and some contents so far) and can start to save a
+lot of time.
+
+While it still needs improvements, it's ready for some action, right
+from the output of bcd. And it's up for review. Usage, dependencies
+are described in the README.
+
+Anyone can use it individually on its own copy of images, the person
+building ISOs first, as a task just after bcd (might be good to try it
+for alpha3).
+
+This could be used too as a filter in an automated build scenario:
+built ISOs are staged in a repository where a cron picks them one by
+one, runs isocheck tests, appends the log and stage them further for
+QA team (or a deeper automated test tool), unless there's a failure
+(and it notifies building person/team).
+
+Speaking of failure, should the script test fail at once at the first
+issue, or continue to test other potential issues? (for instance, an
+ISO may be too big and have misconfigured ISO headers and ..., etc.).
+So far, the script fails at the first failed assertion.
+
+The next step in automation would be misc's Viviane
+(https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2011-August/007539.html)
+and/or http://www.os-autoinst.org/ or other test assistant tool . That
+will help QA team and testers to focus on other, manual-only,
+categories of tests.
+
+Feel free to suggest additional tests for isocheck (and for the rest too)!
+
+Romain
+