Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/6] Avocado: start multi-arch tests, add a Travis job

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Another neanderthal approach to add multi-arch acceptance tests using
> Avocado.
>
> Since Cleber Rosa work got merged [0], I can restart my previous attempt [1]
> at using Avocado in QEMU.
> Cleber Rosa rewrote my previous v1 [1], in good python, now this v2 pushes
> a bit further:
> - we can now run other archs
> - Avocado is integrated into Travis CI
>
> I'm not sure Travis is the best CI available for those tests, but it runs
> quite fast:
>
>       ...
>       LINK    x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64
>     JOB ID     : a3a56af3c02d193e862ce660aae1d9c72926dcb6
>     JOB LOG    : /home/travis/avocado/job-results/job-2018-06-21T23.49-a3a56af/job.log
>      (1/7) tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsoleX86_64.test:  PASS (3.89 s)
>      (2/7) tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsoleMips.test:  PASS (1.83 s)
>      (3/7) tests/acceptance/version.py:Version.test_qmp_human_info_version:  PASS (0.05 s)
>      (4/7) tests/acceptance/vnc.py:Vnc.test_no_vnc:  PASS (0.04 s)
>      (5/7) tests/acceptance/vnc.py:Vnc.test_no_vnc_change_password:  PASS (0.04 s)
>      (6/7) tests/acceptance/vnc.py:Vnc.test_vnc_change_password_requires_a_password:  PASS (0.05 s)
>      (7/7) tests/acceptance/vnc.py:Vnc.test_vnc_change_password:  PASS (0.05 s)
>     RESULTS    : PASS 7 | ERROR 0 | FAIL 0 | SKIP 0 | WARN 0 |
>       INTERRUPT 0 | CANCEL 0

That said on my AArch64 server it fairs better:

15:59:19 [alex.bennee@libgomp-d05-dev:~/l/qemu.git] review/avocado-v2 + avocado run tests/acceptance
JOB ID     : f40e814204ff007c58073ca75abb38bd575f39f2
JOB LOG    : /home/alex.bennee/avocado/job-results/job-2018-06-28T15.59-f40e814/job.log
 (1/7) tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsoleX86_64.test: CANCEL (0.00 s)
 (2/7) tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsoleMips.test: PASS (2.03 s)
 (3/7) tests/acceptance/version.py:Version.test_qmp_human_info_version: CANCEL (0.00 s)
 (4/7) tests/acceptance/vnc.py:Vnc.test_no_vnc: CANCEL (0.00 s)
 (5/7) tests/acceptance/vnc.py:Vnc.test_no_vnc_change_password: CANCEL (0.00 s)
 (6/7) tests/acceptance/vnc.py:Vnc.test_vnc_change_password_requires_a_password: CANCEL (0.00 s)
 (7/7) tests/acceptance/vnc.py:Vnc.test_vnc_change_password: CANCEL (0.00 s)
RESULTS    : PASS 1 | ERROR 0 | FAIL 0 | SKIP 0 | WARN 0 | INTERRUPT 0 | CANCEL 6
JOB TIME   : 2.47 s

Although given the errors in the logs I'm surprised at ERROR 0

>     JOB TIME   : 6.21 s
>
>     Done. Your build exited with 0.
>
>     Job ran for 5 min 34 sec
>
> I couldn't add the Alpha tests because all the vmlinux kernels I found
> online are gzipped, so I'm waiting some upstream Avocado merges before.
>
> Cleber: I hope you can help me pythonizing this series :p
>
> Regards,
>
> Phil.
>
> [0]: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-06/msg04531.html
> [1]: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-04/msg03076.html
>
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (6):
>   avocado: Add a Test.arch property
>   tests/acceptance: Rename the x86-64 specific BootLinuxConsole test
>   tests/acceptance: Improve the Avocado tags
>   tests/acceptance: Add a BootLinuxConsoleMips test
>   tests/acceptance: Add a kludge to not use the default console
>   travis: Add Avocado tests
>
>  .travis.yml                               |  8 +++++
>  scripts/qemu.py                           |  6 ++--
>  tests/acceptance/avocado_qemu/__init__.py | 17 ++++++---
>  tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py    | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++--
>  4 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)


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Alex Bennée