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• Launchpad Entry: karmic-qa-mago-ubiquity-testing

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Summary

Implement a mago test suite for Ubiquity.

Rationale

Ubiquity is an Ubuntu-specific application that would benefit greatly for rigorous automated testing. Typically a user's impression and adoption of Ubuntu is derived from their experience installing Ubuntu. It is important that this process be as smooth as possible.

Use Cases

• Run Ubiquity daily on as many machines and Ubuntu derivatives as possible.
• Increase the test coverage as much as possible with specific automated test cases.

Assumptions

Design

Given certain boot parameters the live CD should be able to run a Mago test once entering a live session, which in turn launches Ubiquity and does an automated install with LDTP.

Implementation

The implementation could be divided to three distinct parts:

1. Author Mago test suite for Ubiquity.
2. Add bootstrap capabilities to the live CD, so that the Mago test could start after boot.
3. Deploy test to be run on a regular basis

Mago Tests

There could be multiple suites that would guide the install process through different option paths.

Casper boot parameter

We should have a way of running wget, retrieving a shell script, running it, which in turn will do bzr checkouts of mago and other dependencies, and start the test. This should all happen when the live session starts.

Regular testing

Unresolved issues

At this time there is no Ubuntu boot parameter that allows the running of arbitrary commands.

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