nilxam / os-autoinst

OS-level test automation

os-autoinst

Table of Contents

• Getting started

The OS-autoinst project aims at providing a means to run fully automated tests. Especially to run tests of basic and low-level operating system components such as bootloader, kernel, installer and upgrade, which can not easily and safely be tested with other automated testing frameworks. However, it can just as well be used to test firefox and openoffice operation on top of a newly installed OS.

os-autoinst can be executed alone, but is currently designed to be executed together with openQA, the web user interface that allows to run more than one os-autoinst instance at the same time.

Getting started

To install os-autoinst, you can see INSTALL

To execute an instance of os-autoinst, we need to create file named vars.json, that we use to store the values of the different variables that will configure and drive the behavior of the application.

There are some variables used by os-autoinst itself and other that are used by the tests. A minimal vars.json file can be:

{
   "DISTRI" :      "opensuse",
   "CASEDIR" :     "/full/path/for/tests",
   "NAME" :        "test-name",
   "ISO" :         "/full/path/for/iso",
   "VNC" :         "91",
   "BACKEND" :     "qemu",
   "DESKTOP" :     "kde"
}

Now we can launch the application with:

$ ../os-autoinst/isotovideo

and we can use VNC to connect to the QEMU instance:

$ vncviewer localhost:91 -ViewOnly -Shared

If you want to contribute to this project, please clone and send git-pull requests via https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst