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<H1>[Mageia-dev] automated installer testing</H1>
<B>Nicolas Lécureuil</B>
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<I>Fri Apr 5 19:58:13 CEST 2013</I>
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<PRE>Le vendredi 5 avril 2013 00:36:13 nicolas vigier a écrit :
><i> On Thu, 04 Apr 2013, Nicolas Lécureuil wrote:
</I>><i> > Le jeudi 28 mars 2013 13:57:11 Glen Ogilvie a écrit :
</I>><i> > > Hi,
</I>><i> > >
</I>><i> > > Has anyone done, or thought about, setting up some automated testing
</I>><i> > > of the Mageia installer?
</I>><i> > >
</I>><i> > > I am thinking something based on:
</I>><i> > > <A HREF="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Auto_inst,">https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Auto_inst,</A> testing inside a VM, with
</I>><i> > > a range of different installer configurations, like:
</I>><i> > >
</I>><i> > > * different languages
</I>><i> > > * Free / non-free
</I>><i> > > * package selections, minimal, full, custom
</I>><i> > > * partitioning optons
</I>><i> > > * LVM options
</I>><i> > > * encryption options
</I>><i> > > * filesystem types
</I>><i> > > * software raid options
</I>><i> > > * known error cases (too small / filesystem), /boot on something not
</I>><i> > > supported * grub and grub2
</I>><i> > > * different CPUs, RAM, architectures.
</I>><i> > >
</I>><i> > > I am thinking that if we had an auto-inst, with maybe 50 or so
</I>><i> > > different test cases, all of which would then be verified by an ssh
</I>><i> > > script connecting to the VM, or something like that.
</I>><i> > >
</I>><i> > > I've found 3 bugs recently, all of which would have been able to be
</I>><i> > > detected by something like what I am suggesting.
</I>><i> > >
</I>><i> > >
</I>><i> > > Suggestions so far are:
</I>><i> > >
</I>><i> > > nicolas vigier:
</I>><i> > > * For automatic testing it would be possible to use OS-autoinst :
</I>><i> > > <A HREF="http://www.os-autoinst.org/">http://www.os-autoinst.org/</A>
</I>><i> > > * What we need is someone to add support for Mageia installer :
</I>><i> > > <A HREF="https://github.com/bmwiedemann/os-autoinst/tree/master/distri">https://github.com/bmwiedemann/os-autoinst/tree/master/distri</A>
</I>><i> > >
</I>><i> > > Pierre-Malo Deniélou:
</I>><i> > > "Great idea. Can you prototype it? We should use something like that for
</I>><i> > > mageia 4."
</I>><i> > >
</I>><i> > > Anne Nicolas:
</I>><i> > > "I remember some people starting something about it Furthermore it could
</I>><i> > > be interested to have some virtualization for basic tests once rebooted"
</I>><i> > >
</I>><i> > > Regards
</I>><i> > > Glen Ogilvie
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > we should look to openQA too. ( <A HREF="https://github.com/bmwiedemann/openQA">https://github.com/bmwiedemann/openQA</A> )
</I>><i> > but seems it needs a huge work to adapt but i think t's worth it
</I>><i>
</I>><i> openQA is a web frontent for OS-autoinst.
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yes but w/o openQA you have errors when starting os-autoinst
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