Hey guys, I've been looking into QA for the images I generate with Debian-Live.
Webconverger.com generates several new ISOs on an update and I am
worried sick something might have gone wrong. ;)
What usually goes wrong for me is that sometimes the package(s)
live-helper needs is misplaced (my fault) or perhaps failed to be
fetched (network fault). I need to also probably come up with a couple
of "fault finding" greps of the debian-live log output.
Brendan Sleight (see mail below) from the morphix project does video
stuff. I think it could be useful to quickly watch a movie in fast
forward if it looks right. (black box testing?)
Also Martin Ferrari tells me he is working on a lintian "fully
automated" style testing of images. (white box testing?)
Other elements of testing I would like to pursue (if I had more time) is
the "PC World test". I would like to plug a USB stick of my image and
test it on all the machines on demo in the store. I probably just need
to create a persistent USB image for the live.log and where perhaps a
`hwinfo` dump could live. This was talked about during Debconf7 as
perhaps being also part of Debian popcon stuff.
Anyone have some QA tips or thoughts, please share. Best wishes,
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:58:18 +0100
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>On 28/06/07, Kai Hendry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> think up a good way of testing all these ISOs I am creating at
I wrote a very ugly script to AutoTest the Morphix ISOs.
http://morphix.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/morphix/trunk/mmaker/utils/auto-testing/auto_testing.sh?view=markup
I have tweaked the script to be less Morphix specific:-
http://morphix.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/morphix/trunk/mmaker/utils/auto-testing/auto_testing.webconverger.sh?view=markup
In a nutshell, the script runs qemu, viewed via vnc session, then
captures screenshots. Then converts the screenshots into a video. I am
using vnc, so one day I can drop the require to be running a local
x-server. (Google for vncrec)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU
Required packages -
imagemagick
ffmpeg
ffmpeg2theora
mencoder
qemu
The Autotesting is a big tough on tmp disk space and CPU usage. I have
a spare old Laptop that runs the Autotesting overnight. Each full test
takes ~1 hour, depending on how many frames are grabbed.
http://www.barwap.com/morphix/webconverger/webc-2.17.cn.iso.ogg
http://www.barwap.com/morphix/webconverger/webc-2.21.en.iso.ogg
I have space on the machine to test an webconverger.iso per day. In a
week of cron job I could get through most of all language versions.
I would be glad to help webconverger, I have been using your package
Iceweasel-webconverger_6-16_all.deb. It works really well.
http://morphix.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/morphix/trunk/morphixlivekiosk/iceweasel-webconverger-6/
Hops this helps,
Brendan
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