* Ulrich Dangel mru@grml.org [Tue Mar 30, 2010 at 08:24:18PM +0200]:
I am happy to announce that we now have unit tests for grml. This means it is possible to automatically test at software like grml2hd, grml2usb and grml-autoconfig at runtime on the iso in an automated way.
Please provide comments about the whole idea, if it is worthwhile in your opinion, what should be changed and if it is a good idea to use this kind of automated testing for an live cd.
As you know I consider this an awesome feature.
I'd like to be able to run automated unittests based on our daily ISOs on an according host once a day as soon as we've the according infrastructure available.
I think writing unittests for all our important features is worth the effort and in the long run I'd like to see new features added to Grml only if they have an according unit test.
I think this unit tests feature through Grml might be interesting for other projects as well, because they can test their own software stuff without any risks - even if it's pretty hardware related like all the partitioning, installation and deployment stuff. Oh and thanks to grml-live they can easily build their own live system if the software isn't shipped as part of Grml. :)
regards, -mika-