[systemd-devel] Ubuntu, Upstart, and systemd

[Michal Vyskocil]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:26:56AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Tue, 24.04.12 21:47, David Strauss (david at davidstrauss.net) wrote:
> 
> 
> https://plus.google.com/115547683951727699051/posts/JCDko6rkic5
> 
> systemd: 20 test tools, Upstart: 17 test tools.
> 
> That said, we always can use more tests (and 20 is not much). We could
> use more tests both integrated in the build system (make check), and outside of
> it. The thing about an init systems that is different from many other
> software systems is that you can hardly test them entirely
> "off-line". To make these tests useful we should actually boot up a full
> machine and check if that's entirely clean.
> 
> The ChromeOS folks have an infrastructure that automatically puts
> together a VM image every time something is commited, then boots it,
> does some checks that things works, measures a couple of performance
> parameters (like bootup time) and makes all that available on some web
> thingy (including graphs showing how boot-up time improve/regress over
> time). I do believe that this kind of infrastructure would be fantastic
> to have for systemd too. it probably could be done with a bit of
> scripting and not too much work with "yum --installroot", genext2fs, and
> qemu-kvm. (alternatively: debootstrap)

Such kind of infrastructure already exists - see os-autoinst [1]. Atm
it's used primary by openQA [2] of openSUSE project to test our Factory,
but main page claims a support for other distributions as well.

[1] http://www.os-autoinst.org/
[2] http://openqa.opensuse.org/

Regards
Michal Vyskocil