Michael Meeks wrote:
On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 10:33 +0100, Caolán McNamara wrote:
Locally installed databases raise questions, and the only
answers that come to mind boil down to a poor man's
substitute for an ODBC data source plus a driver manager
plus who-knows-what. Is there anything here worth thinking
about?
I've wondered about e.g. using virtual box appliance's. Install Linux
under vbox, stick pre-installed postgres, mysql whatever else is
possible, onto it with pre configured databases of test data.
Ah ! good point, in which case we should use openqa:
http://openqa.opensuse.org/
The basic idea is to use a KVM virtual machine, and to do damage / OCR
on the screen, to allow keyboard input and validation of the results.
We currently use it to test our bare-metal openSUSE install flow, and
to provide time-lapse videos of that - it's rather sexy really ;-)
checkout:
http://openqa.opensuse.org/opensuse/video/openSUSE-DVD-x86_64-Build0319-gnome.ogv
All done headless, with no manual input anywhere near, and (IIRC) the
ability to suspend a test just where it failed, to allow it to be
tweaked and continued later ;-)
nearly:
while the test is running, I can interact with VNC
and recent disk images are kept after tests finished, allowing to
re-start it and try things manually (because most of the time, you look
at results of finished tests).
Bernhard would be the best guy to speak to wrt. more details and/or how
to get it setup. Bernhard - would we even have some spare hardware
cycles to host such tests ?
Yes, there are some spare cycles. If long tests need to be added, I
could make it schedule them only daily like the extensive mozilla tests.
I had met Mechtilde at FOSDEM this year. She told me about a huge
OpenOffice/LibreOffice testsuite (libreoffice-testtool) that runs hours
or days. So far I had not come to setting it up on openQA.
And I don't know how reliable it is in terms of false positives.
If you have some script that can setup and run a test, I can integrate
it easily.
E.g. the openQA-specific glue for mozmill tests is 70 lines total:
http://gitorious.org/os-autoinst/os-autoinst/blobs/master/consoletest.d/600_mozmill_setup.pm
http://gitorious.org/os-autoinst/os-autoinst/blobs/master/x11test.d/405_mozmill_run.pm
Ciao
Bernhard M.
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