[Mageia-dev] automated installer testing

Thu Mar 28 01:57:11 CET 2013

Hi,
+
+Has anyone done, or thought about, setting up some automated testing
+of the Mageia installer?
+
+I am thinking something based on:
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Auto_inst, testing inside a VM, with
+a range of different installer configurations, like:
+
+* different languages
+* Free / non-free
+* package selections, minimal, full, custom
+* partitioning optons
+* LVM options
+* encryption options
+* filesystem types
+* software raid options
+* known error cases (too small / filesystem), /boot on something not supported
+* grub and grub2
+* different CPUs, RAM, architectures.
+
+I am thinking that if we had an auto-inst, with maybe 50 or so
+different test cases, all of which would then be verified by an ssh
+script connecting to the VM, or something like that.
+
+I've found 3 bugs recently, all of which would have been able to be
+detected by something like what I am suggesting.
+
+
+Suggestions so far are:
+
+nicolas vigier: 
+* For automatic testing it would be possible to use OS-autoinst :
+http://www.os-autoinst.org/
+* What we need is someone to add support for Mageia installer :
+https://github.com/bmwiedemann/os-autoinst/tree/master/distri
+
+Pierre-Malo Deniélou:
+"Great idea. Can you prototype it? We should use something like that for 
+mageia 4."
+
+Anne Nicolas:
+"I remember some people starting something about it Furthermore it could 
+be interested to have some virtualization for basic tests once rebooted"
+
+Regards
+Glen Ogilvie
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