tapper

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.

Kind regards,
renormalist