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integrating and or running a complex suite of tests for release
qualification.</p></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_megatest_design_philosophy">Megatest Design Philosophy</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>Megatest is intended to provide the minimum needed resources to make
writing a suite of tests and tasks for implementing continuous build
for software, design engineering or process control (via owlfs for
example) without being specialized for any specific problem
space. Megatest in of itself does not know what constitutes a PASS or
FAIL of a test or task. In most cases megatest is best used in
conjunction with logpro or a similar tool to parse, analyze and decide
on the test outcome.</p></div>
<div class="ulist"><ul>
<li>
<p>
Self-checking -Repeatable strive for directed or self-checking test
   as opposed to delta based tests
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integrating and or running a complex suite of tests for release
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</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_megatest_design_philosophy">Megatest Design Philosophy</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>Megatest is a distributed system intended to provide the minimum needed
resources to make writing a suite of tests and tasks for implementing
continuous build for software, design engineering or process control (via
owlfs for example) without being specialized for any specific problem
space. Megatest in of itself does not know what constitutes a PASS or FAIL
of a test or task. In most cases megatest is best used in conjunction with
logpro or a similar tool to parse, analyze and decide on the test outcome.</p></div>

<div class="ulist"><ul>
<li>
<p>
Self-checking -Repeatable strive for directed or self-checking test
   as opposed to delta based tests
</p>
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<h3 id="_architecture_refactor">Architecture Refactor</h3>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="_goals">Goals</h4>
<div class="olist arabic"><ol class="arabic">
<li>
<p>
Reduce load on the file system. Sqlite3 files on network filesystem can be
  a burden.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Reduce number of servers and frequency of start/stop. This is mostly an
  issue of clutter but also a reduction in "moving parts".
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Coalesce activities to a single home host where possible. Give the user
  feedback that they have started the dashboard on a host other than the
  home host.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Reduce number of processes involved in managing running tests.
</p>
</li>
</ol></div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="_changes_needed">Changes Needed</h4>
<div class="olist arabic"><ol class="arabic">
<li>
<p>
ACID compliant db will be on /tmp and synced to megatest.db with a five
  second max delay.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Read/writes to db for processes on homehost will go direct to /tmp
  megatest.db file.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Read/wites fron non-homehost processes will go through one server. Bulk
  reads (e.g. for dashboard or list-runs) will be cached on the current host
  in /tmp and synced from the home megatest.db in the testsuite area.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Db syncs rely on the target db file timestame minus some margin.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Since bulk reads do not use the server we can switch to simple RPC for the
  network transport.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Test running manager process extended to manage multiple running tests.
</p>
</li>
</ol></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_current_items">Current Items</h3>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="_ww05_migrate_to_inmem_db">ww05 - migrate to inmem-db</h4>
<div class="olist arabic"><ol class="arabic">
<li>
<p>
Switch to inmem db with fast sync to on disk db&#8217;s [DONE]
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Server polls tasks table for next action
</p>
<div class="olist loweralpha"><ol class="loweralpha">
<li>
<p>
Task table used for tracking runner process [DONE]
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Task table used for jobs to run
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Task table used for queueing runner actions (remove runs, cleanRunExecute, etc)

</p>
</li>
</ol></div>
</li>
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<h3 id="_architecture_refactor">Architecture Refactor</h3>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="_goals">Goals</h4>
<div class="olist arabic"><ol class="arabic">
<li>
<p>
Reduce load on the file system. Sqlite3 files on network filesystem can be
  a burden. <span class="green">[DONE]</span>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Reduce number of servers and frequency of start/stop. This is mostly an
  issue of clutter but also a reduction in "moving parts". <span class="green">[DONE]</span>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Coalesce activities to a single home host where possible. Give the user
  feedback that they have started the dashboard on a host other than the
  home host. <span class="green">[DONE]</span>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Reduce number of processes involved in managing running tests.
</p>
</li>
</ol></div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="_changes_needed">Changes Needed</h4>
<div class="olist arabic"><ol class="arabic">
<li>
<p>
ACID compliant db will be on /tmp and synced to megatest.db with a five
  second max delay. <span class="green">[DONE]</span>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Read/writes to db for processes on homehost will go direct to /tmp
  megatest.db file. <span class="green">[DONE]</span>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Read/wites fron non-homehost processes will go through one server. Bulk
  reads (e.g. for dashboard or list-runs) will be cached on the current host
  in /tmp and synced from the home megatest.db in the testsuite area. <span class="green">[DONE]</span>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Db syncs rely on the target db file timestame minus some margin. <span class="green">[DONE]</span>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Since bulk reads do not use the server we can switch to simple RPC for the
  network transport. <span class="green">[DONE]</span>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Test running manager process extended to manage multiple running tests.
</p>
</li>
</ol></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_current_items">Current Items</h3>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="_ww05_migrate_to_inmem_db">ww05 - migrate to inmem-db</h4>
<div class="olist arabic"><ol class="arabic">
<li>
<p>
Switch to inmem db with fast sync to on disk db&#8217;s <span class="green">[DONE]</span>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Server polls tasks table for next action
</p>
<div class="olist loweralpha"><ol class="loweralpha">
<li>
<p>
Task table used for tracking runner process <span class="red">[Replaced by mtutil]</span>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Task table used for jobs to run <span class="red">[Replaced by mtutil]</span>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Task table used for queueing runner actions (remove runs,
   cleanRunExecute, etc)  <span class="red">[Replaced by mtutil</span>]
</p>
</li>
</ol></div>
</li>
</ol></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>shifting, note that the preceding blank line is needed.</p></div>
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<pre>[items]
A a b c
B d e f</pre>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>Then the config file would effectively appear to contain an items section
exactly like the output from the script. This is extremely useful when
dynamically creating items, itemstables and other config structures. You can
see the expansion of the call by looking in the cached files (look in your
linktree for megatest.config and runconfigs.config cache files and in your
test run areas for the expanded and cached testconfig).</p></div>




















<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="_disk_space_checks">Disk Space Checks</h4>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Some parameters you can put in the [setup] section of megatest.config:</p></div>
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<pre>[items]
A a b c
B d e f</pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Then the config file would effectively appear to contain an items section
exactly like the output from the script. This is useful when dynamically
creating items, itemstables and other config structures. You can see the
expansion of the call by looking in the cached files (look in your linktree
for megatest.config and runconfigs.config cache files and in your test run
areas for the expanded and cached testconfig).</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Wildcards and regexes in Targets</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>[a/2/b]
VAR1 VAL1

[a/%/b]
VAR1 VAL2</pre>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>Will result in:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>[a/2/b]
VAR1 VAL2</pre>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>Can use either wildcard of "%" or a regular expression:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>[/abc.*def/]</pre>
</div></div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="_disk_space_checks">Disk Space Checks</h4>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Some parameters you can put in the [setup] section of megatest.config:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre># minimum space required in a run disk
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<h5 id="_miscellaneous_setup_items">Miscellaneous Setup Items</h5>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Attempt to rerun tests in "STUCK/DEAD", "n/a", "ZERO_ITEMS" states.</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="title">In megatest.config</div>
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>[setup]
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<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="_run_time_limit">Run time limit</h5>
<div class="listingblock">
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<div class="listingblock">
<div class="title">In megatest.config</div>
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>[setup]
reruns 5</pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Replace the default blacklisted environment variables with user supplied
list.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Default list: USER HOME DISPLAY LS_COLORS XKEYSYMDB EDITOR MAKEFLAGS MAKEF MAKEOVERRIDES</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><div class="title">Add a "bad" variable "PROMPT" to the variables that will be commented out</div><p>in the megatest.sh and megatest.csh files:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>[setup]
blacklistvars USER HOME DISPLAY LS_COLORS XKEYSYMDB EDITOR MAKEFLAGS PROMPT</pre>
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<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="_run_time_limit">Run time limit</h5>
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<pre>$MT_MEGATEST -env2file .ezsteps/${stepname}</pre>
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<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_triggers">Triggers</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>In your testconfig triggers can be specified</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>[triggers]

# Call script running.sh when test goes to state=RUNNING, status=PASS
RUNNING/PASS running.sh

# Call script running.sh any time state goes to RUNNING
RUNNING/ running.sh

# Call script onpass.sh any time status goes to PASS
PASS/ onpass.sh</pre>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>Scripts called will have; test-id test-rundir trigger, added to the commandline.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>HINT</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>To start an xterm (useful for debugging), use a command line like the following:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content monospaced">
<pre>[triggers]
COMPLETED/ xterm -e bash -s --</pre>
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<div class="admonitionblock">
<table><tr>
<td class="icon">
<img src="/nfs/pdx/disks/ice.disk.002/icfadm/pkgs/asciidoc/8.6.7/images/icons/note.png" alt="Note">
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<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_override_the_toplevel_html_file">Override the Toplevel HTML File</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Megatest generates a simple html file summary for top level tests of
iterated tests. The generation can be overridden. NOTE: the output of
the script is captured from stdout to create the html.</p></div>
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<pre>$MT_MEGATEST -env2file .ezsteps/${stepname}</pre>
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<h3 id="_triggers">Triggers</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>In your testconfig or megatest.config triggers can be specified</p></div>
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<pre>[triggers]

# Call script running.sh when test goes to state=RUNNING, status=PASS
RUNNING/PASS running.sh

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<div class="paragraph"><p>Scripts called will have; test-id test-rundir trigger test-name item-path state status event-time, added to the commandline.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>HINT</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>To start an xterm (useful for debugging), use a command line like the following:</p></div>
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<pre>[triggers]
COMPLETED/ xterm -e bash -s --</pre>
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<div class="admonitionblock">
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<td class="icon">
<img src="/usr/images/icons/note.png" alt="Note">
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<div class="paragraph"><p>There are a number of environment variables available to the trigger script
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available at all times. The trigger script should check for the variable and
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<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top" ><p class="tableblock monospaced">The name of the run</p></td>
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<h3 id="_override_the_toplevel_html_file">Override the Toplevel HTML File</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Megatest generates a simple html file summary for top level tests of
iterated tests. The generation can be overridden. NOTE: the output of
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<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_managing_old_runs">Managing Old Runs</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
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<div class="olist arabic"><ol class="arabic">
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<div class="title">For each target, remove all runs but the most recent 3 if they are over 1 week old</div>
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<pre># use -precmd 'sleep 5;nbfake' to limit overloading the host computer but to allow the removes to run in parallel.
megatest -actions print,remove-runs -remove-keep 3 -target %/%/%/% -runname % -age 1w -precmd 'sleep 5;nbfake'"</pre>
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