On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 09:55 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > If you've been following updates to F14 alpha/beta, you'll undoubtedly > have been hit by: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638091 > > which makes everything segfault and is unrecoverable without a live CD > and a lot of manual intervention. > > A simple "does it boot" test in fact wouldn't have caught this, but a > "does it boot, then run prelink" (completely automatic as part of the > Koji build or AutoQA acceptance) would have.
I'm not sure you need to beat the point over the head. I think everyone's aware of the value of automated QA, it's simple a question of time and resources now. The AutoQA team is very busy working on the dependency check tests, which have been identified as the #1 AutoQA priority. Of course, AutoQA is a framework into which you can plug any test, and the AutoQA team actively welcomes people who want to write new AutoQA tests and will do their best to help anyone who wants to write one, so I think the most productive course of action here would be for you to actually write such a test and contribute it. AFAICT you're not active on the autoqa-devel mailing list: https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/autoqa-devel . Why not sign up for it, post your suggestion there, and ask for pointers as to how you could implement a 'does it run?' autoqa test? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
