installed tests

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 14:28 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> With F19 out of the way, maybe now is a good time to bring this topic up
> again.
> 
> There is now a gnome-desktop-testing package in rawhide, which includes
> a small test runner, and a number of packages have grown tests
> subpackages which install tests that this runner can execute:
> 
> glib2-tests
> gdk-pixbuf2-tests
> pango-tests
> gtk3-tests
> 
> More are on the way. The metadata for these tests is quite simple [1],
> and this system can easily be grown to run tests of non-GNOME software,
> if there is interest.
> 
> Upstream, these tests are currently being run several times per day [2],
> and we have an irc bot that informs us in real time about build and test
> failures.
> 
> I think it would be fantastic if we could use these in the Fedora autoqa
> system as well.

Right now work on AutoQA is, I believe, more focused around the Taskbot
effort - http://tirfa.com/an-initial-idea-for-taskbot.html - than about
implementing additional testing. The good news is that part of the point
of the Taskbot re-design is to make it easier to add additional tests in
future, so it's short term pain for long term gain. Tim or Kamil might
correct me, though :)
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