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

[John Mark Walker]

Justin & Avati - have you looked into how OpenStack does automated testing?

-JM


----- Original Message -----
> 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
> 
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Avati
> 
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