Libvirt announce - May 2011 - [PATCH] Documentation on tests suites and new API test suite

This is really a dual mail. The main point is announcing the
availability of the livirt-test-API, a GPL''ed Python based test
suite for libvirt functional testing. It was developped independantly
of the TCK by our QA group here in Beijing China and is now made
open-source. The software requirements are relatively light and
it has been tested on RHEL various versions (5.x and 6.x) as well as
Fedora 14. It should be relatively easy to use on Centos, SL,
but use on other distributions may need a bit of porting.
  It has been in use for quite some time,, it is still in development
and the public repository is in libvirt.org git at:
   http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt-test-API.git
and can be cloned with
   git clone git://libvirt.org/libvirt-test-API.git
there is some pblican based documentation under the docs/ subtree and
we have a PDF ready ans well as snapshots in the download tree
   http://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-test-API/
   ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-test-API/

  There is a lot of improvements possible, it should be relatively
easy to glue to autotest (c.f. chapter 5 of the PDF), and there is
definitely cleanups to be done :-) , I think the best way to proceed
is to just send git patches here on the libvir-list and have them
reviewed and ACK''ed. People with commit access should be able to
push as usual, note that I added Guannan Ren <gren@redhat.com>
as a commiter for this purpose since he has much expertise with that
code (along with Osier).

  Now for the patch itself, it add a top level section in the
navigation bar, provide a main description page for the 3 test suites
(internal, TCK and libvirt-test-API) and then add a separate full
page for the 2 independant test suite.
  I hesitated between creating a new doc section and trying to reuse
one existing, but it didn''t fit well in any of the existing section,
though that could have been added under "Download" or "Related
links"
but it was feeling a bit weird in both case so I opted for a new top
level.

Daniel

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On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:46:11AM -0600, Eric Blake
wrote:
> On 05/10/2011 12:21 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   I hesitated between creating a new doc section and trying to reuse
> > one existing, but it didn''t fit well in any of the existing
section,
> > though that could have been added under "Download" or
"Related links"
> > but it was feeling a bit weird in both case so I opted for a new top
> > level.
> 
> Seems okay to me.
> 
[...]
> ACK with those spelling nits fixed.
  Thanks ! done, I also removed 2 trailing white spaces :-)

Daniel

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