Re: [Xen-cim] Test suite

[Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Gareth S Bestor wrote:
>
> CIM provider test tool should have little or dependency on a cimom IMO.
>

Agreed.

Luke,
Can you put together an equivalent patch that uses sblim-testsuite? 
Sorry for not realizing cimtester dependencies earlier.

Thanks,
Jim

> SBLIM Testsuite has a 'dependency' on wbemcli, which is a
> cimom-agnostic command-line client tool for performing CIM operations,
> pretty much equivalent functionality to Pegasus CLI tool.
>
> Perhaps that's enugh reason to go with SBLIM Testsuite? Certainly it
> lacks ability today to perform complex like scripted CIM
> operations, but I'm not getting the impression cimtester provides
> significantly more in terms of functionality. Plus SBLIM Testsuite
> is being used today for the automated testing of the various SBLIM
> provider packages going into SLES & RHEL...
>
> - Gareth
>
> xen-cim-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 05/10/2007 02:40:28 PM:
>
> > Szymanski, Lukasz K wrote:
> > >
> > > This patch is the humble beginnings of our test suite.  The tests did
> > > not get too far with the latest because of all the instability (CIMOM
> > > seg faults), however, this is one of the reasons we started down this
> > > path anyway.  There are a bunch of errors if cimtester is run on a
> > > previous, more stable version, but the test finishes.  Let's decide
> > > soon which direction we want to pursue (sblim-test or cimtester) so I
> > > can either make improvements on the cimtester stuff or get started on
> > > the sblim-test work.
> > >
> >
> > Damn...  While playing with your patch I realized (while building it)
> > that cimtester has a dependency on  OW client library - which is only
> > available in the whole of OW itself.  So you have to have OW installed
> > to build/run cimtester :-(.
> >
> > sblim-testsuite has a dependency on sblim-wbemcli, but the latter has no
> > cimom dependencies.
> >
> > Seems to me we want a cimom-independent test infrastructure.  Thoughts?
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
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