Hello Alexey,
On 23/12/2025 10:26, Alexey Melezhik wrote:
> Hi! I'd like to contribute debian testing automation
>
> I have an idea of using my own tool to run automated tests for Debian
> OS packages - e.g. installing packages on Debian distro, checking them
> successfully configured, checking that related service is running,
> smoke tests on running services. There is a good experience with using
> the tool for other Linux distros, It'd be interesting to see it with
> Debian OS which is a big distribution containing a lot of packages ...
>
> I have gone through existing tools on https://qa.debian.org/ pages, I
> have not found as I believe similar tools here, I believe this might
> be a good addition
>
> Before giving any details, I'd like to answer if there is room for
> such a tool in Debian QA space?
More QA tools help, especially if someone is watching the output of the
tools :-)
Please provide more details about your tool.
Have you looked at https://openqa.debian.net? Do the tests there match
what you are intending to automate?
With kind regards,
Roland Clobus
Disclaimer: I'm one of the maintainers of openqa.debian.net