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Re: [Xen-API] Introducing Open Source XenRT
Anil,
I am still trying to figure out the exact time-line, but assuming that
everything goes OK. I would expect a discussion session at the Xen
Project Dev Summit in Edinburgh to gather community feedback. The
vendors in the Advisory Board (who would fund the test infrastructure)
will have quite a bit of influence over the final shape of the system
(where hosted, what hardware, etc.), but they already made clear that
anybody in the community must be able to add test cases.
Lars
On 02/09/2013 15:16, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
That's very useful indeed. I can confirm from past experience with XenRT that
it will definitely be suitable for the bulk of Mirage testing. I'd be surprised
if XenRT isn't suitable for use with the OSS hypervisor (since it's always had
OSS tests, followed by XenServer tests since 2006-2007 or so).
What's the best way to get involved with the conversation about the
test-as-a-service platform? That's definitely the right direction to go for
us, since we don't have the resources to manage our own XenRT installation, but
can definitely submit test cases and triage the results.
cheers,
Anil
On 2 Sep 2013, at 15:10, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xxxxxxx> wrote:
For your information: XenRT is also very likely to become the test
(as-a-service) framework for the Xen Project overall. See minutes of the last
Advisory Board Meeting
(http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/AB_Meeting/August_2013_Minutes). Next steps
will be for the Test Framework Committee to have its first meeting, decide
whether XenRT is suitable for Hypervisor testing (besides XenServer testing)
and figure out how to move forward with implementation.
Lars
On 02/09/2013 14:13, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
This is the core engine that has driven all Xen testing for the last decade.
Well worth investigating when our Mirage unit tests need more rigorous stress
testing!
-anil
Begin forwarded message:
From: Alex Brett <Alex.Brett@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-API] Introducing Open Source XenRT
Date: 2 September 2013 13:49:00 BST
To:
"xen-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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