[Beaker-devel] Docs/overview for using autotest in Beaker?

Don Zickus dzickus at redhat.com
Thu Aug 8 14:27:42 UTC 2013


On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 11:52:41PM -0400, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Hi Don, Bill, LMR,
> 
> I saw that the pull request for Beaker harness API support in autotest has been merged. I'd like to link to that feature from beaker-project.org, so I was wondering if there was anything published anywhere (even a blog or mailing list post) that covered the details of:
> 
> 1. What to add to a job/recipe definition to specify autotest as the harness
> 2. What, if anything, to add to the task list in the recipe to configure autotest appropriately
> 3. What, if anything, to include in an autotest job to make it suitable for running inside Beaker
> 4. How the result reporting works when using autotest as a harness inside Beaker (Do the results just go to Beaker? Or does normal autotest reporting still happen as well?)
> 
> If there isn't, we'd be happy to accept a patch on Gerrit to add an autotest section to http://beaker-project.org/docs/alternative-harnesses/ :)
> 
> Somewhat related, is there a tentative date yet for the next autotest release?

Yeah I will have to sit down and write one up.  There were still a couple
of quirks with the workflow (rebooting for one), that I need to iron out.
But I am hoping to re-visit that stuff soon in the next couple of weeks.
I need to wrap up another project first.

Cheers,.
Don


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