[Gluster-devel] Proposal for Gluster 3.5: New test framework

[Anand Avati]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 5:36 AM, Justin Clift <jclift at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 14/08/2013, at 7:43 AM, Anand Avati wrote:
> > Justin,
> >
> > Thanks for firing up this thread. Are there notable projects which use
> these frameworks?
>
> Autotest is used by the Linux kernel (its main claim to
> fame), and is also used by KVM.
>
> STAF seems to have originally been an IBM internal
> project that was open sourced.  Seems to have been around
> for years.
>
> Haven't yet looked at further alternatives, as I was
> mostly expecting Autotest to be ok.  Wrongly it turns out. :(
>
> It would be wise to do some proper investigation/shortlisting
> of potential frameworks before immediately jumping into
> an investigation of STAF.
>
>
> > Do you have any info on what other distributed storage projects use for
> their automated testing?
>
> The Ceph project used Autotest some time ago as well, but
> it didn't meet their needs so they created their own:
>
>   Teuthology
>   https://github.com/ceph/teuthology
>
>   Their historical Autotest stuff
>   https://github.com/ceph/autotest
>   https://github.com/ceph/ceph-autotests
>
> I looked over Teuthology quickly, and it seems decent but it's very
> Ceph oriented/optimised.  Not a general purpose thing we could pick
> up and use without extensive modification. :(
>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift
>

An important factor is going to be support for integration with Gerrit for
pre-commit tests. Or they should at least be configurable behind Jenkins.

Avati
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