#systemd v256~rc1 is out! You know the drill, download it, run it, find all the bugs and report them - possibly to somebody else, I'll be at the nearest pub
In April last year, Codethink announced the Quality Assurance Daemon (QAD) tool: a lightweight Linux daemon designed to aid functional testing of software applications by interacting with the User Interface (UI) of an embedded system. We’ve recently made some enhancements to the tooling, and will be covering these in our latest blog post.
Sam Thursfield, Software Engineer at Codethink, has given his time to become an open source mentor for Outreachy. Outreachy is a programme that provides internships in open source and open science to support those who are impacted by under representation in tech industry.
caught up with shutdown email backlog (not too bad)
committed some updated #fedora#openqa needles I created over the shutdown but just left lying uncommitted on the prod server, did another small test fix
cleaned up the discussion thread on my big Bodhi PR a bit so it's easier to review (I hope)
updated openQA and os-autoinst packages to latest git
generated a big needle cleanup commit for openQA, put it on stg for testing
ran a very long and complicated #fedora 39 go/no-go meeting, unfortunately we had to slip another week, sent out announcements and updated schedule and calendar
a bit of testing and bug reproduction
filed a stable push request, will probably request a new candidate compose soon
upgraded #openqa staging instance to fedora 39 and latest openqa/os-autoinst builds, seems to be fine so far
Day 2 at #XDC2023 has been great so far! Sam Thursfield gave an exciting talk on "Automated Graphical Testing with OpenQA", showcasing how @codethink tests #Linux across different hardware setups. If you missed Sam's talk, our Codethink team is still at the event to answer any questions you might have. You can also read the full synopsis if you couldn't make it to the event today.
We are excited to be participating at @XOrgDevConf in A Coruña, Spain! If you're around tomorrow, make sure you catch Sam Thursfield's talk on 'Automated graphical testing on real hardware: adventures with OpenQA' at 11:20am in Palexco.
lots more trying to get #fedora#openqa update tests working post-F39 branching; I think I have it in a good state now, and gating is enabled for #rawhide again. All tests should pass for Rawhide updates, for F39 updates the desktop_background tests will fail as we don't have F39 backgrounds yet, I have dropped these from the gating policy for now
got sysadmin-main powers. somebody has made a terrible mistake somewhere
yesterday and today: travel to #flocktofedora ! I am here safely and will be presenting on the current state of automated testing in #fedora - that's #openqa and #fedoraci basically - at 3:30pm tomorrow in "Harbour 6". be there or...be somewhere else, it's up to you really! especially if you saw this talk one of the other three times I did it :D
Heads up to all users of openQA : The virtual machine serving the webUI and main controlling openQA instance behind that will be moved to a shiny new SUSE datacenter next Wednesday, 2023-07-19. Expect the system to be unavailable for the majority of the day and reduced test capacities for the days after that. Find more details...
more work on the #openqa alternate approach for update and workaround repos, hit a roadblock but got around it, the mechanism now seems to fully work, did a bit of optimization and polish, more to go
more work on the Top Sekrit Project. it's got classes now! it does nearly the same as it did yesterday, only in a fancier way. you know, normal coding stuff.
openSUSE openqa Service Outage 19-July
Heads up to all users of openQA : The virtual machine serving the webUI and main controlling openQA instance behind that will be moved to a shiny new SUSE datacenter next Wednesday, 2023-07-19. Expect the system to be unavailable for the majority of the day and reduced test capacities for the days after that. Find more details...