Re: [Xen-tools] Testing xm

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Excellent!

Could this be submitted as a patch to the Xen tree?  So that we could 
run a top-level make check and do some basic testing?
I know this is something a number of people have been talking about for 
some time.
Regards,

Anthony Liguori

Dan Smith wrote:

> Several of us here at IBM have been working on a framework for testing
> the xen tools, specifically xm.  Our goal is to provide a way for
> developers to _easily_ write tests for new and existing xm commands.
> We believe that such a test suite will help reduce breakages in the
> user-facing tools when developers modify xm and/or xend.
>
> We would like some feedback from the community on the usefulness of
> our framework, in hopes that it might be hosted by xensource so that
> everyone can contribute tests to help harden xm and xend.
>
> Details:
>
> The framework tests (as well as the support libraries) are written in
> python, which are executed by the standard automake "make check"
> facilities.  We build a standardized ramdisk that can be used for
> portable test writing, therefore reducing dependencies on the test
> host machine*.
>
> The framework library provides several abstractions to make common and
> complex tasks easier for the test writer.  For example, we provide a
> domain and console abstraction that allows a test writer to start a
> domU and execute arbitrary commands, retrieving the status and output
> of each.  This allows a decent amount of automation for verifying that
> (for example) "xm sysrq mydomain s" actually sent the sysrq.
>
> Tarball snapshot available here:
>
>  http://static.danplanet.com/xm-test/xm-test-0.1.0.tar.gz
>
> * Please read the README before running this on a machine that has
>  other domUs running on it.
>
>  

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