Megatest

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<h2 id="_thanks">Thanks</h2>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>To all the great people from the various places I&#8217;ve worked over the
years, thank you. I&#8217;ve benefitted from your patience and insight and I
hope that some of what I&#8217;ve learned from you has been incorporated
into Megatest.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Also, my thanks to all the wonderful open source creators. These
truly free projects, from Linux, xemacs, chicken scheme, and fossil to
asciidoc and bash are the philosophical and direct underpinnings of
the Megatest project.</p></div>
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<h2 id="_preface">Preface</h2>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>This book is organised as three sub-books; getting started, writing tests and reference.</p></div>
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<h3 id="_why_megatest">Why Megatest?</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The Megatest project was started for two reasons, the first was an
immediate and pressing need for a generalized tool to manage a suite
of regression tests and the second was the fact that I had written or
maintained several such tools at different companies over the years
and it seemed a good thing to have a single open source tool, flexible
enough to meet the needs of any team doing continuous integrating and
or running a complex suite of tests for release qualification.</p></div>
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<h3 id="_megatest_design_philosophy">Megatest Design Philosophy</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Megatest is intended to provide the minimum needed resources to make
writing a suite of tests and 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. 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>
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<h3 id="_megatest_architecture">Megatest Architecture</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>All data to specify the tests and configure the system is stored in
plain text files. All system state is stored in an sqlite3
database. Tests are launched using the launching system available for
the distributed compute platform in use. A template script is provided
which can launch jobs on local and remote Linux hosts. Currently
megatest uses the network filesystem to call home to your master
sqlite3 database.</p></div>
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<h1 id="_getting_started">Getting Started</h1>
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<div class="title">Getting started with Megatest</div>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>How to install Megatest and set it up for running your regressions and continuous integration process.</p></div>
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<h2 id="_installation">Installation</h2>
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<h3 id="_dependencies">Dependencies</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Chicken scheme and a number of "eggs" are required for building
Megatest. See the script installall.sch in the utils directory of the
distribution for a mostly automated way to install everything needed
for building Megatest on Linux.</p></div>


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<h1 id="_reference">Reference</h1>
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<h2 id="_the_testconfig_file">The testconfig File</h2>

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