Test run of Jenkins (CI tool)

Trevor Vaughan tvaughan at onyxpoint.com
Wed Sep 3 15:19:37 UTC 2014


Seems like this might be a good case for a public OpenShift instance.

Shawn?

Trevor


On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Gabe Alford <redhatrises at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > 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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