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TPTP-Test-Automation-20071112

Attendees

  • Present:
    • Paul
    • Joel
    • Alan
  • Absent:
    • Joanna
    • Kiryl
    • Jonathan

Testing Process

  • A very lightweight testing process for TPTP.
  • Extends the existing TPTP Testing Strategy.
  • Considered as a instruction manual (e.g. step-by-step) for testing TPTP for each type of testing scenario.
  • Two (or more) documents:
    • 1) High steps to use the testing infrastructure intended for first time users. This document will reference the other document(s).
    • 2) Low level detailed discussion on the motivation and design of the infrastructure intended for TPTP adopters or extenders.
    • 3) Additional documents detailing the specifics of a testing topics.
  • Discussion:
    • Naming conventions for root level test suites and execution results should include test plug-in ID.
    • Execution results need to be saved in a directory with a meaningful name (e.g. OS, JRE, type (full, smoke, BVT)).
    • Test suites for specific JREs and OSes (e.g. JVMPI versus JVMTI) will not always run on the reference platform(s).
    • The existing technical content will remain unchanged, aside from review changes.
    • Need sections for:
      • Getting tests.
      • Creating tests.
      • Running tests.
      • Save test results.
      • Reporting results.
      • BVTs.
    • The Agent Controller and profiler test suites need to migrated to use the TPTP Test Tools instead of requiring a custom configuration.
    • The average tester/reader does not need to know about the technical details, but the steps to perform a certain testing task.

Reference Platform

  • Target: IBM Java 1.5 (latest SR) and Windows XP/x86.
  • Developers are expected to unit test on reference platform before check-in.
  • Nightly builds invoke automated test execution on reference platform.
  • Goal to use a second reference platform for better test coverage (target: Sun Java 5 and Linux/x86).
  • Move to Java 6 once a complete test pass is completed to expose initial defects.
  • The dedicate test machine for the reference platform has been clean and does not need to be re-imaged.
  • Once the PoC is complete, Intel will focus on integrating the testing for the native components (e.g. JVMTI profiler) with the test infrastructure.

Common Test Infrastructure

  • ASF integrated with the TPTP builds (invoked via ANT):
    • Invoke tests.
    • Interrogate results.
    • Generate test reports.
  • TPTP test types:
    • AGR for functional UI testing.
    • TPTP JUnit and TPTP JUnit Plug-in test for unit testing.
  • TPTP build infrastructure:
    • Extract test suites from CVS.
    • Provision reference platform (Agent Controller and Eclipse/TPTP).
    • Install and configure Agent Controller and Eclipse/TPTP on the reference platform.
    • Clean-up reference platform.
    • Post test reports (test and code coverage) on TPTP web site.
  • See the diagram of this infrastructure.
  • Limitations/Issues:
    • Can not test with the Integrated Agent Controller (IAC) since it cannot coexist with the Agent Controller running on the reference platform.
    • Intel needs to inform IBM that their portion of the build is complete (see defect 200351).
  • Discussion:
    • The test infrastructure will execute each test plug-in's AllTest.testsuite, as referenced by the org.eclipse.hyades.tests/All<test type>Tests.testsuite.
    • Need to check out the test plug-ins in the /test-results/<sub-project>/ directory.

Deliverables

  • Alan:
    • Reviewed Test Strategy document.
  • Joel:
    • Eclipse/TPTP and the Agent Controller is now deployed and expanded on the target platform.
    • Jonathan will assist Joel with configuring and running the Agent Controller.
      • Jonathan is waiting on legal approval for using SSH service and a decompression application for the reference platform.
        • Joel to work with Jonathan to use Cygwin.
    • A sample ASF script is working, which handles TPTP JUnit test execution, results interrogation and BIRT reporting.
    • Since there is defect when deploying TPTP JUnit tests remotely, Joel will continue with using TPTP JUnit tests.
    • Executes the Common Base Event JUnit tests.
    • Joel will work on automatically posting the Test Report to /tptp/test/reports/<release>.
    • Joel will work on documenting the test infrastructure for use in the second testing process document, which will be required by TPTP adopters or extenders.
    • Outstanding/Issues:
      • Need to import test plug-ins into workbench before running the tests. Joel will work with Joe to determine how to do this with an ASF service.
      • Exception when generating execution results when the test suite path has a tailing slash. Joel will confirm with Joe if this is a defect.
  • Paul:
    • Working on the defect when deploying TPTP JUnit tests remotely.
    • No project leads have replied to a request to estimate the current testing costs.
    • Paul will remind the TPTP Project Leads to provide a sizing.


Action Items

  • Alan: Complete the first draft of the first testing process document for review by November 14, 2007.
  • Alan: Complete the new test process.
  • Jonathan: Assist Joel with configuring and running the Agent Controller.
  • Joel: Prepare a small discussion on the architecture of the test infrastructure for next week's call.
  • Joel: Document this infrastructure for use in the second testing process document, which will be required by TPTP adopters or extenders.
  • Joel: Create a small slide deck for demoing the PoC to the PMC by November 14, 2007.
  • Joel: Integrate the ASF with the TPTP builds to check-out a 'Hello World' TPTP JUnit test suite from CVS, run the test suite on an Eclipse instance running on the target platform, and generate a BIRT report on the test execution using existing sample code, possibly reuse some function from the Test Dashboard.
  • Joel: Document this infrastructure for use in the second testing process document, which will be required by TPTP adopters or extenders.
  • Paul: Determine labor cost (PW) for a) full test pass and b) smoke test pass from project leads.
  • Paul: Encourage Project Leads to automate existing manual test suites.
  • Paul: Book another meeting for next week (November 19, 2007).
  • Paul: Fix defect when deploying TPTP JUnit tests remotely.

Upcoming Discussion

References

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