I've not been talking about this a whole lot but I've been working on a
slightly different take on test automation as of late. The system as a
whole is very rough and nowhere near complete but I think it does
demonstrate several of the ideas I'm interested in from a high level.

I wrote several blog posts describing what I'd like to do:

http://tirfa.com/down-with-test-automation-long-live-task-automation.html
http://tirfa.com/an-initial-idea-for-taskbot.html
http://tirfa.com/how-is-taskbot-different-from-autoqa.html

I have my proof-of-concept demo running on my local systems:

http://taskbot.tirfa.net

Before spending a bunch more time on this, I want to see what the
general thoughts were on the approach.

 - Does the general concept make sense for Fedora?
 - Is this something we should pursue?

If so, I think that some of the next steps should be:

 - move the code somewhere so that others can contribute
 - migrate the proof-of-concept system to either autoqa-stg or fedora
   cloud systems (95% of the setup is ansible-ized so migration isn't
   too painful)
 - polish the bits that are there so that they actually do most of the
   things I'm talking about
 - do some investigation to be somewhat sure that we're not ignoring
   existing tools (autotest is first on my list, beaker is probably
   worth exploring a bit)

Thoughts?

Tim

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