Test run of Jenkins (CI tool)

Gabe Alford redhatrises at gmail.com
Wed Sep 3 14:39:36 UTC 2014


Right. That makes sense. Docker wouldn't be a bad idea. Could you use a
single image and have a bunch of dockerfiles or run 'docker run' commands
for test cases?


On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Martin Preisler <mpreisle at redhat.com> wrote:

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> > From: "Gabe Alford" <redhatrises at gmail.com>
> > To: "SCAP Security Guide" <scap-security-guide at lists.fedorahosted.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 3, 2014 3:13:44 PM
> > Subject: Re: Test run of Jenkins (CI tool)
> >
> > It would be a lot of work, but we could write automated unit testing
> > scripts using python unittest, python nose, or something else. Then, run
> > those test with a command like 'run-tests'
>
> The test harness is a non issue. There are tons of frameworks that would
> work well.
>
> The issue in my opinion is how we run the tests themselves. That's the part
> that is hard to solve and we should focus on that first IMO. Unfortunately,
> it's hard to evaluation or remediate the system itself without potentially
> breaking it. This is simply unacceptable on the developer's workstation.
> However we can break docker instances all we want because we just delete
> them afterwards :-)
>
> In the future we may have a test runner in upstream repo that would pull
> docker images and run all the test cases. This way contributors can run
> the tests themselves without having to depend on Jenkins. Because of the
> size of the images we shall not keep them in the ssg repo but we could
> keep the surrounding test harness, test cases and scripts in there.
>
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