Another Autopilot question...

[Jayson Rowe]

Thanks Nicholas,
I was just looking for myself. I prefer to have stuff like this segmented
off from my personal install, so I have already built a virtual machine
personally to use for autopilot. I was just wondering if I could
develop/kick-off the tests on my host install and have the test run inside
the VM. That way, you could kick off an entire test suite, and have it do
'its thing' with Unity, or whatever apps you are testing while you can
still do other things in the meantime. Also, you could ensure that the VM
is a pristine clean/default Ubuntu install since everyone makes at least
some minor tweaks to their personal desktops they use for daily use.

I can still do what I want, just a little lest elegantly - I can just kick
them off inside the VM, or perhaps ssh into the VM and run them, and be
good to go, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing out on some server
feature that may have been built in.

The advantage of something like Selenium Grid is you can have a continuous
testing environment where the test are constantly running, or you could run
the test suite in parallel, allowing the entire stack to run more quickly,
with subsets of tests going to different VM's (if you really wanted to get
fancy).


On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Nicholas Skaggs <
nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com> wrote:

>  Jayson, at the moment, no autopilot itself doesn't have anything like
> that. However, I'm guessing you could do something similar via UTAH or
> something else. Regardless, we don't have any remote infrastructure that is
> open to everyone, so no need for the remote aspect of what your talking
> about. However, having your tests run in a virtualized environment is
> interesting. The question is, does setting up the environment need to be
> automated, or does manually booting an iso in virtualbox, qemu, etc work?
> For us as a community, I'm not sure we need to worry about automating the
> environment setup -- but it's certainly possible.
>
> Nicholas
>
>
> On 12/03/2012 08:31 PM, Jayson Rowe wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> Sorry I haven't gotten around to converting some manual test cases to
> automated AutoPilot tests just yet, it's been busy at work with some
> training which has "homework" so to speak.
>
>  I was still thinking though, and I didn't see this anywhere in the
> documentation. Does AutoPilot have something like SeleniumGrid (or Selenium
> Server) in Seleinum where test cases could be written, and kicked off on my
> machine, but executed on a remote (or virtual) machine?
>
>  Thanks,
> Jayson
>
>
>
>
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