Automated Testing of Debian Packages - LORIA

[Pages:31]Introduction Lintian and Linda Rebuilding packages Piuparts Structuring QA Conclusion

Automated Testing of Debian Packages

Holger Levsen ? debian@layer- Lucas Nussbaum ? lucas@

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Introduction Lintian and Linda Rebuilding packages Piuparts Structuring QA Conclusion

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1 Introduction 2 Lintian and Linda 3 Rebuilding packages 4 Piuparts 5 Structuring QA 6 Conclusion

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Introduction Lintian and Linda Rebuilding packages Piuparts Structuring QA Conclusion Debian's Quality Popcon data Automated Testing

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1 Introduction Debian's Quality Popcon data Automated Testing

2 Lintian and Linda

3 Rebuilding packages

4 Piuparts

5 Structuring QA

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Introduction Lintian and Linda Rebuilding packages Piuparts Structuring QA Conclusion Debian's Quality Popcon data Automated Testing

Debian's Quality

Ask around : considered quite good compared to other distros A lot of packages, all supported in the same way :

10316 source packages in etch/main 18167 binary packages in etch/main

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Packages installations according to popcon

percentage of packages

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10000 15000 20000 installations

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18167 packages in etch/main (max : 27700 installations) 1591 packages have less than 10 installations 8985 packages have less than 100 installations 15321 packages have less than 1000 installations

Most packages don't have a lot of installations

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Automated Testing

A way to : give the same level of attention to all packages in Debian not only rely on humans to find bugs avoid regressions keep maintainers busy :-)

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Introduction Lintian and Linda Rebuilding packages Piuparts Structuring QA Conclusion Introduction Example output Future work

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1 Introduction

2 Lintian and Linda Introduction Example output Future work

3 Rebuilding packages

4 Piuparts

5 Structuring QA

Conclusion 6 Holger Levsen and Lucas Nussbaum Automated Testing of Debian Packages

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Introduction Lintian and Linda Rebuilding packages Piuparts Structuring QA Conclusion Introduction Example output Future work

Lintian and Linda

Static checks on Debian packages Lintian : (mostly in) Perl, Linda : Python Easy to run them yourself Generates lots of warnings and errors (some false-positives, too) See (not up to date)

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