November2006Meeting

Wednesday Nov 8th, 6:53pm at FreeGeek -- 1731 SE 10th Ave.

Crucible

"An Automatic Slicing, Dicing, and Rebooting Test Harness"
with Bryce Harrington

Crucible is a test harness in use at OSDL which utilizes several Perl modules, along with a mess of bash scripts, to provide a generalized automated testing system. They use Crucible for testing NFSv4, Linux CPU and Memory hotplug, Inkscape, Cairo, and GeGL. It coordinates tests across a collection of different machines of different architectures; it handles automated power cycling to test-boot new kernels; it can reimage, capture console logs, etc.; it can coordinate multi-client/server configurations; it slices; it dices; it'll even CUT THROUGH A TIN CAN1!!

Most of the Perl components have been uploaded to CPAN, including one set of modules for editing/updating different kinds of bootloader config files, called Linux::Bootloader, another module WWW::PkgFind for downloading software packages from web or ftp sites, or from cvs/git/svn, and another set of modules for parsing test output from different kinds of test programs, called Test::Parser. We've also recently added a module, Test::Presenter, that employs an XML database to recombobulate parsed test data into forms that Chart::Graph::Gnuplot and similar modules can use for making pretty SVG graphs.

more info: http://crucible.sourceforge.net/