http://etherboot.org/wiki/ 2026-09-12T02:14:39-07:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/ http://etherboot.org/wiki/lib/tpl/monobook/images/favicon.ico text/html 2009-06-14T21:20:11-07:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/2009/dverkamp/journal/start?rev=1245039611&do=diff Daniel Verkamp: Automated regression testing Journal * Week 1 [May 23 - 29, 2009] * Week 2 [May 30 - June 7, 2009] * Week 3 [June 8 - 14, 2009] * Week 4 [June 15 - 21, 2009] * Week 5 [June 22 - 28, 2009] * Week 6 [June 29 - July 5, 2009] * Week 7 [July 6 - 12, 2009] * Week 8 [July 13 - 19, 2009] * Week 9 [July 20 - 26, 2009] * Week 10 [July 27 - August 2, 2009] * Week 11 [August 3 - 9, 2009] * Week 12 [August 10 - 16, 2009] text/html 2009-06-01T17:44:01-07:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/2009/dverkamp/journal/week1?rev=1243903441&do=diff Daniel Verkamp: Automated regression testing Journal Week 1 Monday, May 25 Wrote up a list of some potential test cases on notes page. Tuesday, May 26 Discussed Autotest framework with mcb30; goals for the week: * Create a list of test cases * Get Autotest running and add a simple test to verify gPXE builds, then document text/html 2009-06-05T09:05:09-07:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/2009/dverkamp/journal/week2?rev=1244217909&do=diff Daniel Verkamp: Automated regression testing Journal Week 2 Monday, June 1 Tuesday, June 2 Got a working BuildBot master and slave set up on a Debian machine; notes on buildbot. It is currently running at <http://pine.drv.nu:8010/> (although it might be down temporarily sometimes as I work on it). text/html 2009-06-12T14:25:49-07:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/2009/dverkamp/journal/week3?rev=1244841949&do=diff Daniel Verkamp: Automated regression testing Journal Week 3 Monday, June 8 mkbootfs build on hold for now, since even rebuilding uClibc with the RPC setting enabled does not satisfy the mkbootfs busybox build; switching to detailed test descriptions until I get uclibc working properly. text/html 2009-06-18T16:19:47-07:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/2009/dverkamp/journal/week4?rev=1245367187&do=diff Daniel Verkamp: Automated regression testing Journal Week 4 Monday, June 15 Investigated boot-up messages about wget not finding a URL with a mkbootfs system; this seems to be due to missing contents of /proc/cmdline, but I am not sure what format this should be in or what the purpose of it is. text/html 2009-06-26T15:35:30-07:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/2009/dverkamp/journal/week5?rev=1246055730&do=diff Daniel Verkamp: Automated regression testing Journal Week 5 Tuesday, June 23 Wrote and submitted a cleaned-up version of the COMBOOT serial patch. Wednesday, June 24 Read unattended Windows setup documentation (Step-by-step howto, FAQ). Thursday, June 25 Received testsuite skeleton from mcb30; began working on it, with some work pushed to my text/html 2009-06-29T13:34:51-07:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/2009/dverkamp/journal/week6?rev=1246307691&do=diff Daniel Verkamp: Automated regression testing Journal Week 6 Monday, June 29 More work on QEMU machine module in testsuite: * Runtime addition, removal, and change of networks, NICs, and media text/html 2009-07-16T10:55:43-07:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/2009/dverkamp/journal/week7?rev=1247766943&do=diff Daniel Verkamp: Automated regression testing Journal Week 7 Monday, July 6 Added support for saving and loading snapshots in 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. text/html 2009-07-16T10:54:43-07:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/2009/dverkamp/journal/week8?rev=1247766883&do=diff Daniel Verkamp: Automated regression testing Journal Week 8 Thursday, July 16 Resuming work today after travel... The testcase I have been using with the automated QEMU system had been having trouble getting a DHCP address on the gPXE client some of the time, and this was reoccuring more often in my current tests, so I created a new snapshot, being sure that the server was fully started and ready to accept requests before taking the snapshot. Now it works reliably, with the client getting a… text/html 2009-07-24T06:08:10-07:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/2009/dverkamp/journal/week9?rev=1248440890&do=diff Daniel Verkamp: Automated regression testing Journal Week 9 Monday, July 20 Implemented configuration file loading for Test::Machine, as discussed with Michael. Configuration file syntax: key = value # comment Trailing comments on key = value lines are currently not supported to allow for arbitrary value content. Leading and trailing whitespace on text/html 2009-07-30T13:55:58-07:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/2009/dverkamp/journal/week10?rev=1248987358&do=diff Daniel Verkamp: Automated regression testing Journal Week 10 Monday, July 27 Attempting to debug Test::Machine::Qemu lockup with -curses and -monitor on a PTY. Noted that with -curses and -serial stdio, no lockup occurs, so this seems to be unique to -curses. text/html 2009-08-12T14:34:15-07:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/2009/dverkamp/journal/week12?rev=1250112855&do=diff Daniel Verkamp: Automated regression testing Journal Week 12 Monday, August 11 Fixed emulation of SU (Scroll Up) in Term::Emulator; now output for my captured input from a specific QEMU run works completely correctly (matches the output of xterm).