[Linux-ha-dev] Re: [Linux-HA] Release testing with CTS

[David Lee]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:

> On 2007-07-15T14:58:47, David Lang <david.lang at digitalinsight.com> wrote:
>
> > it would be great if somthing like the auto-build system could feed into a
> > cluster like this for automated testing (I don't know if there would be
> > enough testing with nightly builds, but periodic tested builds would be
> > more valuble then just the nightly builds)
>
> That should be quite easy, actually. Just pull down the packages and
> roll them out across the cluster, run CTS, et voila. It'd be nice if the
> thingy autogenerated mails (if not bugzilla entries) for each failed
> test.
>
> Yes, I'd be very happy to see this.

Could I tag something related onto this?

The "buildbot" package seems worth exploring to do multiple routine builds
from the source code management system (ours is mercurial) on a variety of
systems and environments, and to attibute new warnings and errors to
particular updates.  And I think it would be possible for lots of us as
individuals, with worldwide distribution, to run slaves for such a thing.

As you'll have gathered, this is primarily about building, rather than
running.  But it does (if I read it correctly) include the useful
build-time "problem X caused by update Y" functionality.


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