* Michael Tautschnig <m...@debian.org> [Wed Mar 31, 2010 at 05:48:20PM +0200]:
> > recently we started to work towards unittests for Grml > > (http://grml.org/ - a Debian based live system which ships and > > uses FAI as part of the grml-live buildsystem). > > Our unittests provide a way to be able to test low-level stuff like > > partitioning, installation and deployment and as FAI is part of Grml > > already it might be an interesting way to get unittests for FAI. > This is *really cool*!!! :) > In fact, Henning (Sprang) and I discussed this a while ago but > none of us found the time to effectively start implementing > something like this. Yeah, I've talked to Henning (and Thomas too) regarding this issue as well. > > If you're interested in it find the details in: > > http://ml.grml.org/pipermail/grml-devel/2010-March/000023.html > > If anyone of you is motivated to write test scripts for automating > > some usual FAI tasks you can count with my help. (I plan to write > > unit tests for the dirinstall feature of FAI on my own.) > > Please provide feedback and let us know if you need any assistance > > or have suggestions regarding our unittest framework. > We also discussed that at least two more aspects would be important: > - Documentation. Where could we find the results, what do they look like, etc. I think that's something that will grow, improve and evolve over the time while we're working on it within Grml itself. > - Automation. Full automation. Ideally, we would have some server doing the > tests after each and every commit (or daily, or whatever granularity fits > best). Sure, that's something I'd like to see for Grml as well. > At the last FAI workshop we also tried to setup something similar, but back > then > KVM wasn't quite stable. Anyway, you might want to have a look at > people/michael/features/kvm_fai_tester in the SVN. Ah. > Please please keep us posted on your progress with the dirinstall testing > stuff: > I'm too busy to work on this right now, but I'm really interested in testing > solutions for FAI. Will do. regards, -mika- -- http://michael-prokop.at/ || http://adminzen.org/ http://grml-solutions.com/ || http://grml.org/
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