#mer-meeting: Mer QA meeting 26/07/2012

Meeting started by E-P at 12:00:03 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. Current status (E-P, 12:00:12)
    1. QA ToDo list updated and tasks added (E-P, 12:00:28)
    2. Test coverage draft done, https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Quality/Test_coverage (E-P, 12:01:08)
    3. Test execution howto https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Quality/ExecuteTests (E-P, 12:01:32)

  2. OTS replacement (E-P, 12:17:08)
    1. features that make it different from ots (E-P, 12:17:28)
    2. transition cost based test distribution (e.g. don't reflash device when not needed, send test to device that already has necessary image flashed ) (E-P, 12:17:36)
    3. support for running non-packaged tests (E-P, 12:17:56)
    4. web ui for queue observation/control/access to logs/results / workers maintenance info (E-P, 12:17:59)
    5. ability to restart workers or server (e.g. for upgrade) without stopping tests (E-P, 12:18:03)
    6. usage of multiple devices in single testcase (E-P, 12:18:06)
    7. less interesting things (planned): pre/post device analysis, gradual results submission (live progress monitoring), testcase modification on-the-fly (for long-period-testing) (E-P, 12:18:11)
    8. http://wiki.meego.com/Quality/QA-tools/Test_packaging (phaeron1, 12:39:10)
    9. http://wiki.meego.com/Quality/QA-tools/Test_package (phaeron1, 12:39:54)
    10. ACTION: stskeeps to investigate if we can do rpm custom fields or otherwise relay information out of band when building test package (Stskeeps, 12:50:30)
    11. currently it is called as dister (E-P, 12:55:23)
    12. dister has 2 kinds of modules (E-P, 12:55:27)
    13. 1. test case providers - know how to split your request into Tasks (minimal units of execution) (E-P, 12:55:30)
    14. 2. execution drivers - know how to execute Tasks on devices (vm, hardware, robots, etc). (E-P, 12:55:34)
    15. task distribution is made regardless of provider & driver (E-P, 12:55:37)
    16. tasks know their requirements, inputs, and the name of driver (E-P, 12:55:42)
    17. defining test and environment requirements are under planning (E-P, 12:56:04)


Meeting ended at 12:57:56 UTC (full logs).

Action items

  1. stskeeps to investigate if we can do rpm custom fields or otherwise relay information out of band when building test package


People present (lines said)

  1. yunta_ (63)
  2. E-P (60)
  3. Stskeeps (45)
  4. lbt (40)
  5. phaeron1 (25)
  6. timoph (9)
  7. MerBot (2)
  8. iekku (1)


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