Hi All, After encountering some release issues with the Apache Karaf 2.1.x branch it has come to the forefront that we need to improve our distribution testing. The main target of distribution testing we need is to try out the various scripts we include in each distribution kit. These tests would ideally cover un-archiving the kit, launch bin/karaf, bin/start, bin/stop, bin/client, and bin/admin.
To help build these tests we can make use of bin/client to help make ssh connections (send commands), and admin/core process library to control the various processed involved in each test. To uncompress the different distributions we could use commons-compress or just ask maven to do the work for us (this is done in the Servicemix NMR & Features projects). Regardless of which tools we use to build these tests a certain amount of CI will be required. Most of us currently use unix based systems, so Windows based issues for example tend to sneak by. Hopefully by having such tests automated we'll be able to catch distribution issues earlier. Cheers, Jamie
