====== Daniel Verkamp: Automated regression testing ======

===== Journal Week 7 =====

==== Monday, July 6 ====

Added support for saving and loading snapshots in [[http://git.etherboot.org/?p=people/dverkamp/gpxe.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/testsuite|testsuite]]; this will allow semi-automated testing, as discussed with mcb30:

  * Install server components like a DHCP server and iSCSI target (manually for now) in a VM and save its state.
  * Using the framework provided by the testsuite Perl modules, load the server VM, as well as a test VM using a gPXE image from the tree.
  * Connect the VMs to a network and allow them to run (eventually with automated collection of the results).

==== Tuesday, July 7 ====

Built a simple test server VM (Debian with DHCPD and Apache), saved a snapshot (named "server3" in the following script) and used it to boot a test VM with the testsuite framework:

  #!/usr/bin/perl -w
  
  use Test::Network::Vde;
  use Test::Machine::Qemu;
  use strict;
  use warnings;
  
  my $server = new Test::Machine::Qemu;
  my $client = new Test::Machine::Qemu;
  
  my $network = new Test::Network::Vde;
  
  $server->hdd ( "server.hd" );
  $server->nic ( { type => "pcnet", macaddr => "52:54:00:12:34:57" } );
  $server->network ( $network );
  
  $client->fdd ( "../bin/rtl8139.dsk" );
  $client->nic ( { type => "rtl8139", macaddr => "52:54:00:12:34:56" } );
  $client->network ( $network );
  
  $server->load_snapshot ( "server3" );
  
  $server->run();
  $client->run();
  
  <STDIN>;