[node-devel] Continous Testing of Node

[Fabian Deutsch]

Hey,

after some time oVirt Node builds are finally also running through Igor
[1] - a tool to do some continuous testing on VMs and real hardware.

Currently igor is doing a basic test, so testing if the automatic
installation works and if the can reboot. This testing is done once each
night and report is sent to the node-patches [2, 2a] mailing-list.

Running the tests required some preparations to meet Node's
requirements. Igor [1] can manage the lifetime of a test instance (or
real server) and prepares cobbler to provision the instance. Afterwards
it supervises the testing process and cleans everything when it reached
it's EOL (by passing or failing the testcases).
A client [3] is injected into the (build by Jenkins) ISO using jboggs
plugin patches [4], which is executing all the necessary stuff on the
Node.

Now that the infrastructure is in place the next steps will be to add
some testcases (structured into testsets and testsuites) to [5].
The testcases should cover automatic and TUI install, but further more
we should even do unit tests on the underlying "libraries" (like
ovirt-functions). This has to be done online, because most of the
functions expect a running system.

If you want to contribute testcases - or anything else - have a look at
the examples in [1] and [2].

Greetings
fabian


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[1] https://gitorious.org/ovirt/igord
[2] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/node-patches/
[2a] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/node-patches/2012-June/001481.html
[3] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/5460/
[4] https://gitorious.org/ovirt/ovirt-igor-client
[5] https://gitorious.org/ovirt/ovirt-node-igor-testsuites
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