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

===== Notes =====

==== Potential test cases  ====

NOTE: brainstorming; not final

  * Protocol tests: download image, verify integrity
    * HTTP
    * HTTPS
    * TFTP
    * iSCSI
    * ...

  * Image formats: boot image, run some kind of "proof of boot"?
    * bzImage
      * multiple versions of Linux
      * gpxe .lkrn
      * other OSes using bzImage format?
    * NBI
    * COMBOOT
    * Multiboot
    * ...

  * API/interface testing
    * COMBOOT
    * PXE
    * GDB stub
    * ...

  * gPXE scripting language

  * SAN booting
    * Windows installation (various versions)
    * Windows booting (WinAoE, iSCSI)
    * ...

  * gPXE output formats
    * Floppy disk
    * CD
    * PXE NBP (test on other PXE stacks?)
    * ...

  * Net drivers

==== Sample test cases ====

=== Windows PE boot ===

== Test ==

Boot into a Windows PE operating system generated according to [[:winpe|these instructions]] via TFTP.

== DUT configuration ==

No physical disks present.  System configured to boot from NIC equipped with gPXE ROM.

== Environment configuration ==

TFTP server hosting WinPE files.  DHCP server providing network configuration and path to WinPE's ''\Boot\pxeboot.n12'' file.

== Result ==

Success is defined as reaching WinPE's ''X:\Windows\system32'' command prompt.

=== iSCSI forward authentication ===

== Test ==

Boot into a Windows Server 2003 operating system stored on an iSCSI target that requires forward CHAP authentication.

== DUT configuration ==

No physical disks present.  System configured to boot from NIC equipped with gPXE ROM.  NIC non-volatile storage configured with iSCSI username and password.

== Environment configuration ==

iSCSI target running IETD set up to require forward CHAP authentication.  DHCP server providing network configuration and iSCSI root-path, but not providing iSCSI username and password (which are held in the DUT's non-volatile storage).

== Result ==

Success is defined as reaching the Windows graphical login screen.

=== Linux bzImage boot ===

== Test ==

Boot into a minimal Linux/busybox system created using [[http://git.etherboot.org/?p=people/mcb30/mkbootfs.git;a=summary|mkbootfs]] via HTTP.

== DUT configuration ==

No physical disks present.  System configured to boot from NIC equipped with gPXE ROM.

== Environment configuration ==

Apache HTTP server providing gPXE script, kernel, initrd, and modules as separate files.  gPXE script set to instruct client to download kernel, initrd and relevant modules.  DHCP server providing network configuration and path to gPXE script on HTTP server.

== Result ==

Success is defined as reaching the busybox shell prompt.

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