Ubiquity, Autopilot, and Automated Installer Testing

[Nicholas Skaggs]

This is worth it's own topic here on the mailing list! One of the 
initial goals for autopilot was to help automate ubiquity and do 
automated installer testing. We want to be able to automate many of the 
easy installer tests so we can look for the harder to find bugs and 
follow-up on what we do find.
Check out the bug report for this here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-autopilot-tests/+bug/1116774

Up until now ubiquity hasn't played nice with autopilot -- thus we were 
unable to write any testcases for it. The good news is thanks to Thomi 
and Dmitrijs it's working now!

You'll notice I added a comment to the bug report about the proof of 
concept -- we should be able to write testcases to do automated 
installer testing! Now we need volunteers to hack that proof of concept 
into a full fledged installer testcases (starting with something easy 
like Install (entire disk)). We'll be hacking on this during the 
hackfest tomorrow, but you don't need to wait to dive in. Help make this 
a reality! For details see the bug report and associated lp branches and 
dive in!

Nicholas
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