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[Mageia-dev] automated installer testing

+ Pascal Terjan + pterjan at gmail.com +
+ Fri Mar 29 12:41:28 CET 2013 +

+
+ +
On 28 Mar 2013 00:57, "Glen Ogilvie" <nelg at linuxsolutions.co.nz> wrote:
+>
+> 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"
+
+We had been talking about it at Mandriva times but I don't remember if
+something was done.
+
+Something like testing the install goes to the end + system starts with for
+example console on serial port in kvm to parse it for errors and check the
+dm comes up + maybe run run some automated test scripts.
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