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<H1>[Mageia-dev] automated installer testing</H1>
<B>Pascal Terjan</B>
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<I>Fri Mar 29 12:41:28 CET 2013</I>
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<PRE>On 28 Mar 2013 00:57, "Glen Ogilvie" <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">nelg at linuxsolutions.co.nz</A>> wrote:
><i>
</I>><i> Hi,
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Has anyone done, or thought about, setting up some automated testing
</I>><i>
</I>><i> of the Mageia installer?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I am thinking something based on:
</I>><i>
</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>
</I>><i> a range of different installer configurations, like:
</I>><i>
</I>><i> * different languages
</I>><i>
</I>><i> * Free / non-free
</I>><i>
</I>><i> * package selections, minimal, full, custom
</I>><i>
</I>><i> * partitioning optons
</I>><i>
</I>><i> * LVM options
</I>><i>
</I>><i> * encryption options
</I>><i>
</I>><i> * filesystem types
</I>><i>
</I>><i> * software raid options
</I>><i>
</I>><i> * known error cases (too small / filesystem), /boot on something not
</I>supported
><i>
</I>><i> * grub and grub2
</I>><i>
</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>
</I>><i> different test cases, all of which would then be verified by an ssh
</I>><i>
</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>
</I>><i> detected by something like what I am suggesting.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Suggestions so far are:
</I>><i>
</I>><i> nicolas vigier:
</I>><i>
</I>><i> * For automatic testing it would be possible to use OS-autoinst :
</I>><i>
</I>><i> <A HREF="http://www.os-autoinst.org/">http://www.os-autoinst.org/</A>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> * What we need is someone to add support for Mageia installer :
</I>><i>
</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>
</I>><i> "Great idea. Can you prototype it? We should use something like that for
</I>><i>
</I>><i> mageia 4."
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Anne Nicolas:
</I>><i>
</I>><i> "I remember some people starting something about it Furthermore it could
</I>><i>
</I>><i> be interested to have some virtualization for basic tests once rebooted"
</I>
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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