Re: [Xen-devel] Introducing Open Source XenRT

[ChanJu Park <bestworld@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,
 
I have a question about this XenRT.
Is it possible to use it on Xen ARM?
If not, I wonder there is any plan for this.
 
Best Regards,
ChanJu Park

------- Original Message -------
Sender : Lars Kurth<lars.kurth.xen@xxxxxxxxx>
Date : 2013-09-03 00:06 (GMT+09:00)
Title : Re: [Xen-devel] Introducing Open Source XenRT

Hi all,


I wanted to add some extra context to this announcement. Citrix making 
available the code of XenRT is also an important step for the Xen Project (with 
it, in effect phase 1/3 of creating a more comprehensive framework for the Xen 
Project is complete). At the last Advisory Board meeting, the following AB 
members agreed to form a Test Framework Committee to look at next steps on how 
we can make this happen. The companies which so far agreed to be on the 
committee are AMD, Amazon Web Services, CA, Calxeda, Citrix, Intel and Oracle. 
For more details, see 
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/AB_Meeting/August_2013_Minutes#.231_Open_Source_testing_framework


The basic idea is to create a test-as-a-service framework for the Xen Project 
which is hosted at a vendor neutral location. The framework would be open to 
the community to extend. It will still take some time to complete this work 
(probably Q1 next year). This does mean, that the project will not have an 
alternative to OSS test for some time. 


I am planning to schedule a BoF and/or session at the Xen Developer Meeting to 
get more community input. I expect that members of the still to be formed Test 
Framework Committee will work with the wider development community.


Best Regards
Lars



On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Alex Brett <Alex.Brett@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As a follow up activity to the open sourcing of XenServer, Citrix is pleased to 
announce the open sourcing of its automated test platform, XenRT.

XenRT ("Xen Regression Test") is a test automation framework, written in 
Python, providing abstractions for the various components under test (pool, 
host, VM, storage, network etc). The library code which makes up these 
abstractions simplifies the process of writing tests, allowing quite complex 
operations to be performed in a single method call.

In a full deployment, XenRT handles all aspects of the testing process - it 
will schedule a test job onto a host, bootstrap it (via DHCP/PXE), install the 
build to be tested, carry out the testing, and collect all necessary logs for 
troubleshooting, without any user interaction required.

In addition to basic functional, regression, and stress testing, XenRT has 
suites of tests that are used for testing performance, scalability, and 
interoperability.

Within Citrix, XenRT is used with a distributed lab comprised of an extremely 
wide range of hardware, and is developed and maintained by a team of some 25 
developers. Tests are also written and executed directly by the wider XenServer 
engineering team, in a true "Test-as-a-Service" platform - see 
http://blogs.citrix.com/2013/08/30/xenserver-automated-testing-and-lab-orchestration-introducing-xenrt/
 for more information.

XenRT has been open sourced to leverage Citrix's experience and resources in 
test automation to help improve the quality of open source Xen and XenServer 
releases, to benefit the entire community.

To get started with XenRT, follow the links below to the code and a README 
document (which contains getting started instructions - further documentation 
will follow in the near future). For discussion a mailing list has been created 
- information about this can be found at 
https://lists.xenserver.org/sympa/info/xenrt-users


README document:
http://downloadns.citrix.com.edgesuite.net/akdlm/8169/README

Main XenRT tarball:
http://downloadns.citrix.com.edgesuite.net/akdlm/8168/xenrt.tgz

Third party test resource tarball:
http://downloadns.citrix.com.edgesuite.net/akdlm/8169/tests.tgz

Source for third party resources (not required for normal operation):
http://downloadns.citrix.com.edgesuite.net/akdlm/8169/tests-source.tgz

Kind Regards,
Alex Brett


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