RE: [Xen-cim] Test suite

["Szymanski, Lukasz K" <Lukasz.Szymanski@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Gareth -

 

Jim, Raj, and I discussed your point exactly on Thursday.  Jim has a python script that does something similar to what you describe in your curl script.  Independence is a great thing, however, then we need to reinvent the wheel in a sense by rewriting test suite functionality.  We talked about having a separate script to define VMs (like Jim's python script of your curl script), etc and having a test suite do the other things (sblim-test suite).  Choosing sblim-test does not paint us into any corner and we could always opt to go independent if we want.  If this sounds reasonable or if something is missing, this is a good time to discuss it before I get too serious with the coding.

 

Luke

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From: xen-cim-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-cim-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gareth S Bestor
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 8:22 PM
To: Jim Fehlig
Cc: xen-cim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-cim] Test suite

BTW - if you want to go 'all the way' in terms of independence, we could ditch wbemcli/CLI/whatever and use straight CIM-XML. I have a small script that uses curl to submit an XML doc to a specific host/port and display the results if/when they get back.

I'm not implying that avoiding a CLI to make our lives simpler is the way to go, but I just wanted to throw it out there as an option [BTW - one that we may be forced to take to test some things like DefineVS(), at least till these CIM clients correctly handle embedded instances...]

- G


xen-cim-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 05/11/2007 05:07:27 PM:

> Gareth S Bestor wrote:
> >
> > CIM provider test tool should have little or dependency on a cimom IMO.
> >
>
> Agreed.
>
> Luke,
> Can you put together an equivalent patch that uses sblim-testsuite?
> Sorry for not realizing cimtester dependencies earlier.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
> > SBLIM Testsuite has a 'dependency' on wbemcli, which is a
> > cimom-agnostic command-line client tool for performing CIM operations,
> > pretty much equivalent functionality to Pegasus CLI tool.
> >
> > Perhaps that's enugh reason to go with SBLIM Testsuite? Certainly it
> > lacks ability today to perform complex like scripted CIM
> > operations, but I'm not getting the impression cimtester provides
> > significantly more in terms of functionality. Plus SBLIM Testsuite
> > is being used today for the automated testing of the various SBLIM
> > provider packages going into SLES & RHEL...
> >
> > - Gareth
> >
> > xen-cim-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 05/10/2007 02:40:28 PM:
> >
> > > Szymanski, Lukasz K wrote:
> > > >
> > > > This patch is the humble beginnings of our test suite.  The tests did
> > > > not get too far with the latest because of all the instability (CIMOM
> > > > seg faults), however, this is one of the reasons we started down this
> > > > path anyway.  There are a bunch of errors if cimtester is run on a
> > > > previous, more stable version, but the test finishes.  Let's decide
> > > > soon which direction we want to pursue (sblim-test or cimtester) so I
> > > > can either make improvements on the cimtester stuff or get started on
> > > > the sblim-test work.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Damn...  While playing with your patch I realized (while building it)
> > > that cimtester has a dependency on  OW client library - which is only
> > > available in the whole of OW itself.  So you have to have OW installed
> > > to build/run cimtester :-(.
> > >
> > > sblim-testsuite has a dependency on sblim-wbemcli, but the latter has no
> > > cimom dependencies.
> > >
> > > Seems to me we want a cimom-independent test infrastructure.  Thoughts?
> > >
> > > Jim
> > >
> > >
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