On 02/01/2011 09:44 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
On 02/01/2011 03:24 PM, Tim Flink wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> My name is Tim Flink and I just joined Red Hat to work on Fedora QA.
> I've been a Fedora user since Fedora 5 but haven't been involved in the
> community until now.
>
> My recent experience has been in storage device testing and test
> automation framework development with an emphasis on Linux and VMWare
> integration. I will initially be working on AutoQA development but I
> imagine that my role will evolve over time.
>
> I'm really excited to be joining the Fedora community and I'm looking
> forward to working with you all!
>
> Tim
Welcome to the rocky ride of rawhide ;)
Oh and please share a bit how you did perform storage testing :)
perhaps we can put your expertise to good use within the project on
other areas than AutoQA ;)
JBG
Well, I figure everything is at least somewhat unstable while testing.
I'm used to the OS being stable while testing the storage system, so
rawhide will be a bit of an adjustment.
Almost all of the work I was doing was on an internal test automation
framework but the testing I did do was mostly on FC storage and some
iSCSI. That testing was done at a system level which used mostly
customer-available tools and triage methods. We were generally using
internal or proprietary, device-specific tools but most of the tests
went something like:
- start load
- run test
- check for errors (data corruption, path/device issues, etc.)
- gather debug data, if needed
The areas that I have at least some experience in are:
- FibreChannel switches (mostly newer Brocade and Cisco)
- DeviceMapper
- iSCSI
- Storage system load generation (Hazard, Medusa)
- Java (mostly java6)
- Maven2
- Java frameworks (Wicket, EasyMock, TestNG, Hibernate, Enunciate)
- Web Services (in Java, mostly RESTful, some SOAP consumer)
- Kickstart
- Basic RPM dev
Other than iSCSI, Kickstart and RPM, I'm not sure how useful any of that
would be to the Fedora community but I might be missing something. I'd
be willing to entertain any ideas you had, though.
Tim