[Automated-testing] Automated testing with LAVA

[Richard Purdie]

Hi Tim,

On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 08:50 -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
> On 09/04/2014 04:23 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > As some of you may know, over the last few months we've been working through 
> > some exercises with LAVA attempting to see how it could be integrated into the 
> > Yocto Project QA workflow. At this point I think we've reached some conclusions 
> > about how it's currently working, and I'd like to schedule a meeting to 
> > discuss that with interested parties some time next week (perhaps on a hangout 
> > as previously?)
> > 
> > It also strikes me that this mailing list has gone a little quiet lately, 
> > we've not had a meeting for a while and I've not really heard anything from 
> > other folks working on LAVA integration - it would be good to get an update on 
> > how that is going.
> 
> The LTSI project is just getting ready for public beta of our
> test platform.  We ended up not going with LAVA.  I'm not sure
> if this list (or the proposed meeting) is the appropriate place to discuss
> this.  It sounds like this list is really geared towards LAVA as
> the preferred Yocto testing solution.
> 
> Let me know if there's any interest in discussing non-LAVA solutions
> in the future.

I'd echo Bill's comments from a slightly different perspective. There
are several organisations involved with the Yocto project who are
committed into LAVA based solutions.

However, as things stand today, the Yocto Project has not officially
adopted anything and whilst I don't want to pre-empt the discussion Paul
is planning, based on what I've seen so far, I don't see a clear winning
solution right now and the project is going to continue to keep its
options open.

So yes, there is much interest in discussing non-LAVA solutions and I'd
encourage that. The meeting is proposed for a specific discussion about
LAVA (which is good) but the list is intended to discuss alternatives
too.

Cheers,

Richard