RATS: now in production

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Feb 21 05:18:10 UTC 2012


Don't worry, they don't carry diseases.

I really just wanted to spread this news out a little more because it's
really cool stuff.

Thanks to Hongqing Yang and Kamil Paral, one of the long-term goals of
the AutoQA project is now a reality:

http://autoqa-stg.fedoraproject.org/resultsdb/frontend/search?type=Testcase&terms=rats_install

the rats_install test runs an entirely automated test of the Fedora
installer daily, against the daily installer composes provided by
release engineering. It provides detailed logs and pinpoints where
failure occurs if the installation is not successful, and preserves the
complete anaconda logs for debugging. So now we can know, daily, whether
the Branched tree is in an installable state or not.

Those of you with very long memories may recall Will Woods'
'israwhidebroken.com' idea which was one of the starting points of the
whole AutoQA effort - the rats_install test finally realizes that
glorious, beefy vision.

Well, just wanted to give that some publicity - it's always good to be
able to show off solid progress on AutoQA.

In case anyone wonders why the test is 'failed' for the last four days -
the test uses the serial installation interface, and it's hitting
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=736993 . So the result is
correct.
-- 
Adam Williamson
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