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
@adamw Yeah, he tends to go straight through like he's speed running it where for me, the side quests are often more important than the main story. I'm not a die hard completionist, but I'll often try to as long as it stays interesting.
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.
the #podman thing looks small, but it's quite a cool collaboration with upstream: what it (should) mean is that we catch when a change in something else, e.g. systemd, breaks something important in podman (more than we did already, by doing some functional testing of podman). upstream is excited about it, let's hope it works out well.
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
@funnelfiasco@adamw I need to watch it. It's "based in" the city I now live in, even though it wasn't actually filmed here. The 1966 Batman movie, however, was filmed here and I think of it every time I go by Stearn's Wharf.
Adam West voice: "Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb!"
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