On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 06:02:02PM -0800, Min Chen wrote: > Changed to subject to submit a Merge request. > > This is to request merging my feature branch vim51_win8 to master. The > context of this feature branch is already discussed in this email thread, > basically we are upgrading Vmware SDK from 4.x to 5.1 to support more > guest OS, like Windows 8, Windows 2012, or potentially OSX. Since this > feature is directly communicating to Vmware hypervisor, we need to have a > Vcenter and esx host setup to test this code change. Unit tests are not of > much value here. Based on our earlier discussion, I am sharing the manual > integration tests I have done so far with this branch (synced with master > up to commit cf06861c9bf883f2ca1ec818fe7bd4ad26b84318 today): > > 1. Back-compatibility test to make sure that new SDK will work with older > version of VCenter (I used VCenter 5.0 to test) > - Deploy CentOs VM. > - Apply the following operations on VM: start/stop/volume snapshot > > 2. Test with 5.1 VCenter > - Deploy CentOS VM. > - Register Template: Windows 2012 template > - Deploy Windows 2012 VM. > - Start/Stop VM > - Take Volume snapshot of VM > > All these tests are done with Basic Zone setup. > > Thanks > -min
Why are you not using marvin tests for this? I'd rather know that testing is automated, then rely on manual regression testing results. -chip
