[Testing] Automation Scripts

[Mel Chua]

Yep! Well, not tinderbox just yet; cjb is giving me a crash course on 
that tomorrow.

Sugarbot is actually one of the things I had in mind when I wrote the 
"run something in Terminal Activity or in the VT" - all of the testing 
frameworks we already have should be able to be run by a system like 
this... the additional functionality that this would add is the ability 
to remotely control a lot of XOs simultaneously - when you're doing 
exploratory testing with a lot of XOs and need to be able to control 
actions in real-time, but don't want to go around typing things manually 
on 100 keyboards.

Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> 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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