William, William Schumann wrote: > Jan, > > jan damborsky wrote: >>> I wrote: I added functionality to disktest originally for testing >>> the Orchestrator enhancements to maintain slices and partitions, but >>> found it unnecessary when AI manifest processing was implemented. >>> The test driver code reads a text file and performs operations >>> according to commands and parameters. I have not tried to use it >>> since initial development. For now, I am not going to unit test it, >>> since I am not certain that it will be used. >> >> I think that QE team is interested in this test driver for testing >> the orchestrator. If you think this is not the appropriate tool >> to take advantage of, should we probably offer another way, how >> those changes might be tested ? > I've been testing these changes by using an auto-install environment: > -to get a DHCP address and boot the microroot > -allowing the autoinstaller to download and mount solaris.zlib and > solarismisc.zlib > -allowing the auto install service to fail > -logging in as root > -running auto-install manually specifying manifests with the -p option > > Running auto-install manually works for me, but I need to to type a > console interrupt after the TI phase if no problems occur. > > This would also work for QE, but they are going to want automated > techniques. I think that a small change to the AI-engine to break > either before or after TI (chosen by auto-install command line > options), so that a script could automatically check status of the > test against a particular manifest and disk configuration.
That is a good suggestion, as it would make testing this kind of stuff easier to accomplish. >> >>>> >>>> Also, could you please add this test driver to the recently >>>> introduced SUNWinstall-test package ? It is intended to >>>> bundle Caiman installer test drivers for purposes of QE team >>>> and currently contains TD & TI test drivers. Thanks. >>>> > OK, but this is out of the scope of this enhancement. I will file a > new bug that addresses the topic of testing AI that will minimally > package the test driver and may include the changes I mention above to > auto-install for command line automated testing. As you said in our > office discussion, input from the community might improve the > resulting test software. Thanks, Jan
