Yep! Well, not tinderbox just yet; cjb is giving me a crash course on that tomorrow.
Sugarbot is actually one of the things I had in mind when I wrote the "run something in Terminal Activity or in the VT" - all of the testing frameworks we already have should be able to be run by a system like this... the additional functionality that this would add is the ability to remotely control a lot of XOs simultaneously - when you're doing exploratory testing with a lot of XOs and need to be able to control actions in real-time, but don't want to go around typing things manually on 100 keyboards. Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Hi Mel, have you already checked tinderbox and the possibility of > running these tests there? > > And then we have SugarBot and the possibility of automatically testing > Sugar and activities ;) > > Regards, > > Tomeu > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Mel Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> More generalized: a framework that would let you write scripts like the >> one Joe described below. >> >> types of actions it would be great to script >> -------------- >> * connect to the internet >> * verify connection >> * olpc-update >> * check current build >> * run something in Terminal Activity or in the VT - this would allow you >> to do all sorts of stuff, like netstat and pwr-log, and hook in other >> test tools - including gui test tools that can be called from terminal. >> * in order to do the above, it'd help to be able to wget/yum-install >> packages/scripts on the remote XO, and scp logs back up to somewhere >> afterwards (this should be doable if you can remotely ssh in as root). >> >> when run, this framework would >> -------------- >> * remotely login to every listed laptop >> * run your script >> * report results >> >> -Mel >> >> Joseph A. Feinstein wrote: >> >>> Reuben, >>> >>> The absolutely first thing that comes to mind: having a script which >>> (based on a "tester's given" list of laptop names and parameters of >>> the olpc-update command) will remotely login into every listed laptop, >>> connect it to the Internet, verify the connection, start the >>> olpc-update command and (possibly) verify that the update successfully >>> happened. >>> >>> Joe >>> --------- >>> At 05:43 PM 10/10/2008, Reuben K. Caron wrote: >>> >>>> I'd like to think about automation scripts over the break. Please let >>>> me know what you need and have in mind. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Reuben >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Reuben K. Caron >>>> Country Support Engineer >>>> One Laptop per Child >>>> Mobile: +1-617-230-3893 >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> >>>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Testing mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing >> >> _______________________________________________ Testing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing
