Right. That makes sense. Docker wouldn't be a bad idea. Could you use a single image and have a bunch of dockerfiles or run 'docker run' commands for test cases?
On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Martin Preisler <mprei...@redhat.com> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Gabe Alford" <redhatri...@gmail.com> > > To: "SCAP Security Guide" <scap-security-guide@lists.fedorahosted.org> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 3, 2014 3:13:44 PM > > Subject: Re: Test run of Jenkins (CI tool) > > > > It would be a lot of work, but we could write automated unit testing > > scripts using python unittest, python nose, or something else. Then, run > > those test with a command like 'run-tests' > > The test harness is a non issue. There are tons of frameworks that would > work well. > > The issue in my opinion is how we run the tests themselves. That's the part > that is hard to solve and we should focus on that first IMO. Unfortunately, > it's hard to evaluation or remediate the system itself without potentially > breaking it. This is simply unacceptable on the developer's workstation. > However we can break docker instances all we want because we just delete > them afterwards :-) > > In the future we may have a test runner in upstream repo that would pull > docker images and run all the test cases. This way contributors can run > the tests themselves without having to depend on Jenkins. Because of the > size of the images we shall not keep them in the ssg repo but we could > keep the surrounding test harness, test cases and scripts in there. > > -- > Martin Preisler > -- > SCAP Security Guide mailing list > scap-security-guide@lists.fedorahosted.org > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/scap-security-guide > https://github.com/OpenSCAP/scap-security-guide/ >
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