Instalatron: Anaconda testing framework

[David Cantrell]

On 07/20/2011 08:50 AM, Sergio Rubio wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Hongqing Yang<hoyang at redhat.com>  wrote:
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>> Hi, Sergio,
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> Hi Hongqing,
>
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>> Thanks for sharing. Now I and Tao Wu are working on the project Fedora installation test automation.
>> The project is based on the Autotest framework and part of the AutoQA project.
>> Now it is using qemu-kvm and the test results are read from the logs. The installations from url,
>> DVD, hard drive and upgrade are almost finished, we try to implement all the tests roughly first, so we can
>> use them at the usual tests, more details will be done later.
>> I think we also will adopt screen-shot in future, since we cannot see the errors of UIs from logs.
>
> I'm eagerly waiting to have a look at that project. Any ETA or
> something that I can have a look at?
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>> I saw you compare the images in the codes, but which are images should the screen-shots compare with
>> when one new product is released?
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> If Anaconda UI has not changed a lot, you can just copy the script

Just a heads up, the anaconda UI will be changing a lot:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/UX_Redesign

and:

http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/category/fedora/anaconda/

> from a previous recording (say F15) and replace the relevant steps in
> script.yml (i.e. replacing the png and/or altering the keyboard
> sequence). Usually 90% of the script can be reused and you only need
> to change the steps where the UI has changed.
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> I'm writing some docs about this, it's a great use case.
>
>
>> Thanks again, I leaned much from you codes, You are the first one I meet also works on the installation
>> test. Glad to know you.
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> My pleasure.
>
>
>>
>> Hongqing
>>



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