Fwd: [Xen-API] Introducing Open Source XenRT

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is the core engine that has driven all Xen testing for the last decade. 
Well worth investigating when our Mirage unit tests need more rigorous stress 
testing!

-anil

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Alex Brett <Alex.Brett@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Xen-API] Introducing Open Source XenRT
> Date: 2 September 2013 13:49:00 BST
> To: "xen-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> As a follow up activity to the open sourcing of XenServer, Citrix is pleased 
> to announce the open sourcing of its automated test platform, XenRT.
> 
> XenRT ("Xen Regression Test") is a test automation framework, written in 
> Python, providing abstractions for the various components under test (pool, 
> host, VM, storage, network etc). The library code which makes up these 
> abstractions simplifies the process of writing tests, allowing quite complex 
> operations to be performed in a single method call.
> 
> In a full deployment, XenRT handles all aspects of the testing process - it 
> will schedule a test job onto a host, bootstrap it (via DHCP/PXE), install 
> the build to be tested, carry out the testing, and collect all necessary logs 
> for troubleshooting, without any user interaction required.
> 
> In addition to basic functional, regression, and stress testing, XenRT has 
> suites of tests that are used for testing performance, scalability, and 
> interoperability.
> 
> Within Citrix, XenRT is used with a distributed lab comprised of an extremely 
> wide range of hardware, and is developed and maintained by a team of some 25 
> developers. Tests are also written and executed directly by the wider 
> XenServer engineering team, in a true "Test-as-a-Service" platform - see 
> http://blogs.citrix.com/2013/08/30/xenserver-automated-testing-and-lab-orchestration-introducing-xenrt/
>  for more information.
> 
> XenRT has been open sourced to leverage Citrix's experience and resources in 
> test automation to help improve the quality of open source Xen and XenServer 
> releases, to benefit the entire community.
> 
> To get started with XenRT, follow the links below to the code and a README 
> document (which contains getting started instructions - further documentation 
> will follow in the near future). For discussion a mailing list has been 
> created - information about this can be found at 
> https://lists.xenserver.org/sympa/info/xenrt-users
> 
> 
> README document:
> http://downloadns.citrix.com.edgesuite.net/akdlm/8169/README
> 
> Main XenRT tarball:
> http://downloadns.citrix.com.edgesuite.net/akdlm/8168/xenrt.tgz
> 
> Third party test resource tarball:
> http://downloadns.citrix.com.edgesuite.net/akdlm/8169/tests.tgz
> 
> Source for third party resources (not required for normal operation):
> http://downloadns.citrix.com.edgesuite.net/akdlm/8169/tests-source.tgz
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Alex Brett
> 
> 
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