[Testing] Automation Scripts

[Tomeu Vizoso]

Hi Mel, have you already checked tinderbox and the possibility of
running these tests there?

And then we have SugarBot and the possibility of automatically testing
Sugar and activities ;)

Regards,

Tomeu

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Mel Chua <mel at laptop.org> wrote:
> More generalized: a framework that would let you write scripts like the
> one Joe described below.
>
> types of actions it would be great to script
> --------------
> * connect to the internet
> * verify connection
> * olpc-update
> * check current build
> * run something in Terminal Activity or in the VT - this would allow you
> to do all sorts of stuff, like netstat and pwr-log, and hook in other
> test tools - including gui test tools that can be called from terminal.
> * in order to do the above, it'd help to be able to wget/yum-install
> packages/scripts on the remote XO, and scp logs back up to somewhere
> afterwards (this should be doable if you can remotely ssh in as root).
>
> when run, this framework would
> --------------
> * remotely login to every listed laptop
> * run your script
> * report results
>
> -Mel
>
> Joseph A. Feinstein wrote:
>> Reuben,
>>
>> The absolutely first thing that comes to mind: having a script which
>> (based on a "tester's given" list of laptop names and parameters of
>> the olpc-update command) will remotely login into every listed laptop,
>> connect it to the Internet, verify the connection, start the
>> olpc-update command and (possibly) verify that the update successfully
>> happened.
>>
>> Joe
>> ---------
>> At 05:43 PM 10/10/2008, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
>>> I'd like to think about automation scripts over the break. Please let
>>> me know what you need and have in mind.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Reuben
>>>
>>> --
>>> Reuben K. Caron
>>> Country Support Engineer
>>> One Laptop per Child
>>> Mobile: +1-617-230-3893
>>> reuben at laptop.org
>>>
>>
>>
>
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