On Thu, 04 Apr 2013, Nicolas Lécureuil wrote: > Le jeudi 28 mars 2013 13:57:11 Glen Ogilvie a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > Has anyone done, or thought about, setting up some automated testing > > of the Mageia installer? > > > > I am thinking something based on: > > https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Auto_inst, testing inside a VM, with > > a range of different installer configurations, like: > > > > * different languages > > * Free / non-free > > * package selections, minimal, full, custom > > * partitioning optons > > * LVM options > > * encryption options > > * filesystem types > > * software raid options > > * known error cases (too small / filesystem), /boot on something not > > supported * grub and grub2 > > * different CPUs, RAM, architectures. > > > > I am thinking that if we had an auto-inst, with maybe 50 or so > > different test cases, all of which would then be verified by an ssh > > script connecting to the VM, or something like that. > > > > I've found 3 bugs recently, all of which would have been able to be > > detected by something like what I am suggesting. > > > > > > Suggestions so far are: > > > > nicolas vigier: > > * For automatic testing it would be possible to use OS-autoinst : > > http://www.os-autoinst.org/ > > * What we need is someone to add support for Mageia installer : > > https://github.com/bmwiedemann/os-autoinst/tree/master/distri > > > > Pierre-Malo Deniélou: > > "Great idea. Can you prototype it? We should use something like that for > > mageia 4." > > > > Anne Nicolas: > > "I remember some people starting something about it Furthermore it could > > be interested to have some virtualization for basic tests once rebooted" > > > > Regards > > Glen Ogilvie > > we should look to openQA too. ( https://github.com/bmwiedemann/openQA ) > but seems it needs a huge work to adapt but i think t's worth it
openQA is a web frontent for OS-autoinst.
