Re: RFC: A regression test framework for Debian packages?
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 08:19:23PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> > In a chrooted environment, we can install deboostrap and
> > package dependencies through APT.
>
> About 6 months ago I started writing some code in expect to do just this, to
> test my quake2-data installer package. I was able to install the package
> into an UML machine, answer the debconf questions, and check the location of
> the installed files (being an installer package, not all files installed by
> the package are in the deb).
>
> I haven't touched this code for a long time, but I've been meaning to clean
> it up and start doing regression testing on parts of the archive. I envisage
> being able to run it once a week on the entire archive, testing the
> ability of every pacakge to cleanly upgrade from woody to sarge, and back
> again.
Nice! How does it work exactly? How do you write tests? Do you have scenarii
or something?
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Jérôme Marant
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