On 11/18/2014 09:08 AM, Keith I Myers wrote:
Hello All,
I have a spare dedicated server sitting in a colo space that I pay
for. The server is powered off and is pretty much going to waste. I
was thinking of setting up a VM host to find a better way of
performing some high level QA tests in a semi-automated fashion. Has
anyone toyed with this idea in the past?
(Server Specs : 2x Quad Core L5420 Processors | 36 GB RAM | 2x 1 TB
Hard Disks)
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Hi Keith,
Sorry for the enormously long delay but this kept getting pushed further
and further down on my to-do list :^(
I've not personally played with automated testing and my testing
machines lack the RAM capacity to make use of a virtual machine ATM, but
I did several years ago use VirtualBox for all of my distro upgrade
testing. The clear benefit was the ability to use snapshots so if an
upgrade test failed I could easily restore the snapshot and then repeat
the test when the devs released a potential bug fix.
Upgrade tests (using the release-upgrader) are by far the most time
consuming because it requires beginning with a fully updated prior
version so you have the installation time of the old release + the time
to apply updates + applying a few tweaks (such as importing or creating
browser & email client profiles) + importing a few files/pics to be sure
no data is lost during the upgrade. Then after that the actual upgrade
usually takes 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 hours.
Anyway, does anyone else on the list know anything about setting up
automated testing? If not maybe someone could contact /balloons/ via IRC
chat for some resources regarding that. I believe the lions share of
Ubuntu's own testing is now automated so I'm sure resources exist, I'm
just not sure where to begin looking.
Lance
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