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The Megatest Users Manual
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Matt Welland <matt@kiatoa.com>
v1.0, April 2012
:doctype: book
[preface]
Preface
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This book is organised as three sub-books; getting started, writing tests and reference.
Why Megatest?
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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 the author 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.
Megatest Design Philosophy
--------------------------
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.
* Self-checking -Repeatable strive for directed or self-checking test
as opposed to delta based tests
* Traceable - environment variables, host OS and other possibly influential
variables are captured and kept recorded.
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The Megatest Users Manual
=========================
Matt Welland <matt@kiatoa.com>
v1.0, April 2012
:doctype: book
[preface]
Preface
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This book is organised as three sub-books; getting started, writing tests and reference.
.License
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This document is part of Megatest.
Megatest is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
Megatest is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with Megatest. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
----------------------------
Why Megatest?
-------------
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 the author 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.
Megatest Design Philosophy
--------------------------
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.
* Self-checking -Repeatable strive for directed or self-checking test
as opposed to delta based tests
* Traceable - environment variables, host OS and other possibly influential
variables are captured and kept recorded.
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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.
include::../plan.txt[]
// to allow the getting_started.txt to be a stand-alone document use level
shifting, note that the preceding blank line is needed.
// :leveloffset: 2
include::installation.txt[]
include::getting_started.txt[]
:leveloffset: 0
include::writing_tests.txt[]
include::howto.txt[]
include::reference.txt[]
Megatest Internals
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["graphviz", "server.png"]
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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.
include::plan.in[]
// to allow the getting_started.txt to be a stand-alone document use level
shifting, note that the preceding blank line is needed.
// :leveloffset: 2
include::installation.txt[]
include::getting_started.in[]
:leveloffset: 0
include::writing_tests.txt[]
include::howto.in[]
include::reference.in[]
Megatest Internals
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["graphviz", "server.png"]
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include::server.dot[]
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