Lacey: Looks like a young Omar Sharif.
Cagney: He's got crooked teeth.
Lacey: You know, Christine, you're very critical. That's your trouble with men. You want them all to be perfect.
Cagney: No, I just have a thing about teeth.
-- Cagney & Lacey, "Let Them Eat Pretzels" (1983)
Tapper release 4.1 codename "Cagney & Lacey"
We just finished a new release of "Tapper", our all-embracing test infrastructure, used for Linux and virtualization testing in the OSRC and the
infrastructure behind Perl::Formance.
Changelog for this release:
Databases
refactoring to also work with PostgreSQL
Automation
scheduler 10x speedup
host blacklisting per queue
beginning Cobbler support
Tools
CLI command harmonization
Documentation
migrated to POD for maintainability
complex precondition and testplan examples
Misc
overall cleanup to sync with upstream technologies
autotest 0.14.x
Perl 5.16
Catalyst 5.9
Credits
Kudos as usual to the CPANTESTERS infrastructure which allows us
to test over a wide variety of platforms.
For now let's start with the latest release. It actually happened in May 2012 but we had some polishing cycles to get the CPANTESTERS matrix green. Thanks to the CPAN testers people for helping us there. The rest was quite the usual amount of work thet made me forget the announcement.
Here we go:
She's mad at everybody. She's even mad at the ice cream man.
"Why does the ice cream truck have to come just before lunch
or just before dinner, spoil the children's appetite?"
I have to listen to that. I hear that 3 time a week, you know
that's 12 times a month.
Columbo, "The Most Crucial Game" (1972)
Tapper release 4.0 codename "Columbo" 2012-05
Automation
better linux32 chroot/exec support
persistent automation layer, based on event-queues
(Tapper::MCP, Tapper::MCP::MessageReceiver)
introduce SSH-connect to test without complete machine setup
support suspend/resume testing;
via abstract central 'actions' to be called from remote clients
(Tapper::Action)
conditionally trigger notifications on incoming results
(Tapper::Notification)
keep-alive mechanics for broken hosts
much better scriptability everywhere to support strangest
requirements
now send+upload virtually all result details+files
allow use snapshots to not suffer from upstream changes
Tapper-autoreport: better virtualization support (probably the
world's current best Xen/KVM host/guest detection heuristics,
really)
better Perl::Formance benchmarking integration
Reports database
store attachments bzip2 compressed (optionally compress already
existing attachments)
Reports API
allow passthrough of incoming results to 3rd party applications
(e.g. extract benchmark results and pass them along them to external
graph rendering - aka. "level 2 receivers")
more robust TAP::Archive support
Query API
easier attachment downloading
QueryAPI now available in testplan template to allows generate
testruns based on older results (think of "use last successful
aka. known-good Xen changeset for another complicated test")
Web GUI
user authentication (via PAM)
reworked filter framework
better show current scheduling state
configurable site customizations for non-OSRC instances
CLI
new frontend tool 'tapper'
more subcommands for user/notification/testplan handling
testplan development support
misc
better configurable control over grub entry writing
utils to fake/test the automation layer (Tapper::Fake)
Hacking on Tapper
we now use Dist::Zilla to author Perl libs
plugins:
Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::AMD
PodWeaver::PluginBundle::AMD
Task::BeLike::AMD
Outlook
We currently work on big speed enhancements and PostgreSQL support.