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Re: autopkgtest (was Re: Bits from the Security Team (for those that care about bits)



On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:37:26AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Montag, 24. Januar 2011, Iustin Pop wrote:
> > Second, README.test are designed for human consumption, whereas a
> > standardisation of how to invoke the tests would allow for much more
> > automation. E.g. piuparts would not only be able to test that the
> > install succeeds, but the automated tests also work.
> 
> Package: autopkgtest
> Description: automatic as-installed testing for Debian packages
>  autopkgtest runs tests on binary packages.  The tests are run on the
>  package as installed on a testbed system (which may be found via a
>  virtualisation or containment system).  The tests are expected to be
>  supplied in the corresponding Debian source package.
>  .
>  See adt-run(1) and /usr/share/doc/autopkgtest.
>  Use of adt-virt-xenlvm requires the autopkgtest-xenlvm package too;
>  Use of the pre-cooked adt-testreport-onepackage script requires curl.
> 
> 
> I'm happy that you like piuparts, but it's not the best tool for 
> everything :-)

As I said, "E.g." - for example. Thanks for mentioning autopkgtest, I
didn't know about it.

iustin

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