Megatest

which can launch jobs on local and remote Linux hosts. Currently
megatest uses the network filesystem to call home to your master
sqlite3 database.</p></div>
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<h1 id="_road_map">Road Map</h1>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Note: This road-map is tentative and subject to change without notice.</p></div>




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<h3 id="_ww32">ww32</h3>


<div class="olist arabic"><ol class="arabic">
<li>
<p>
Rerun step and or subsequent steps from gui
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Refresh test area files from gui
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Clean and re-run button
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Clean up STATE and STATUS handling.
</p>
<div class="olist loweralpha"><ol class="loweralpha">
<li>
<p>
Dashboard and Test control panel are reverse order - choose and fix
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Move seldom used states and status to drop down selector
</p>
</li>
</ol></div>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Access test control panel when clicking on Run Summary tests

</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Feature: -generate-index-tree
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Change specifing of state and status to use STATE1/STATUS1,STATE2/STATUS2
</p>
</li>
</ol></div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_ww33">ww33</h3>
<div class="olist arabic"><ol class="arabic">
<li>
<p>
http api available for use with Perl, Ruby etc. scripts
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
megatest.config setup entries for:
</p>
<div class="olist loweralpha"><ol class="loweralpha">
<li>
<p>
run launching (e.g. /bin/sh %CMD% &gt; /dev/null)
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
browser "konqueror %FNAME%
</p>
</li>
</ol></div>
</li>
</ol></div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_ww34">ww34</h3>
<div class="olist arabic"><ol class="arabic">
<li>
<p>
Mark dependent tests for clean/rerun -rerun-downstream
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
On run start check for defunct tests in RUNNING, LAUNCHED or REMOTEHOSTSTART and correct or notify
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Fix: refresh of gui sometimes fails on last item (race condition?)
</p>
</li>
</ol></div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_ww35">ww35</h3>
<div class="olist arabic"><ol class="arabic">
<li>
<p>
refdb: Add export of csv, json and sexp
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Convert to using call-with-environment-variables where possible. Should allow handling of parallel runs in same process.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Re-work text interface wizards. Several bugs on record. Possibly convert to gui based.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Add to testconfig requirements section; launchlimiter scriptname, calls scriptname to check if ok to launch test
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Refactor Run Summary view, currently very clumsy
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Add option to show steps in Run Summary view
</p>
</li>
</ol></div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_ww36">ww36</h3>
<div class="olist arabic"><ol class="arabic">
<li>
<p>
Refactor guis for resizeablity
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Add filters to Run Summary view and Run Control view
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Add to megatest.config or testconfig; rerunok STATE/STATUS,STATE/STATUS&#8230;
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Launch gates for diskspace; /path/one&gt;1G,/path/two&gt;200M,/tmp&gt;5G,#{scheme <strong>toppath</strong>}&gt;1G

</p>
</li>
</ol></div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_bin_list">Bin List</h3>
<div class="olist arabic"><ol class="arabic">
<li>
<p>
Quality improvements
</p>
<div class="olist loweralpha"><ol class="loweralpha">
<li>
<p>
Server stutters occasionally
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Large number of items or tests still has some issues.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Code refactoring
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Replace remote process with true API using json (supports Web app also)
</p>
</li>
</ol></div>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Streamline the gui
</p>
<div class="olist loweralpha"><ol class="loweralpha">
<li>
<p>
Everything resizable
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Less clutter
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Tool tips
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Filters on Run Summary, Summary and Run Control panel

</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Built in log viewer (partially implemented)
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Refactor the test control panel
</p>
</li>
</ol></div>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Help and documentation
</p>
<div class="olist loweralpha"><ol class="loweralpha">
<li>
<p>
Complete the user manual (I’ve been working on this lately).
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Online help in the gui

</p>
</li>
</ol></div>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Streamlined install
</p>
<div class="olist loweralpha"><ol class="loweralpha">
<li>
<p>
Deployed version (download a location independent ready to run binary bundle)
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Install Makefile (in progress, needed for Mike to install on VMs)
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Added option to compile IUP (needed for VMs)
</p>
</li>
</ol></div>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Server side run launching
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Support for re-running, cleaning etc. of individual steps (ezsteps makes this very easy to implement).
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Launch process needs built in daemonizing (easy to do, just need to test it thoroughly).
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Wizards for creating tests, regression areas (current ones are text only and limited).
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Fully functional built in web service (currently you can browse runs but it is very simplistic).
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Wildcards in runconfigs: e.g. [p1271/9/%/%]
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Gui panels for editing megatest.config and runconfigs.config
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Fully isolated tests (no use of NFS to see regression area files)
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Windows version
</p>
</li>
</ol></div>
</div>
<h1 id="_getting_started">Getting Started</h1>
<div class="openblock">
<div class="title">Getting started with Megatest</div>
<div class="content">
<div class="paragraph"><p>How to install Megatest and set it up for running your regressions and continuous integration process.</p></div>
</div></div>

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<h1 id="_writing_tests">Writing Tests</h1>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_the_first_chapter_of_the_second_part">The First Chapter of the Second Part</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>Chapters grouped into book parts are at level 1 and can contain
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<h1 id="_reference">Reference</h1>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_the_first_chapter_of_the_second_part_2">The First Chapter of the Second Part</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>Chapters grouped into book parts are at level 1 and can contain

<h3 id="_ezsteps">Ezsteps</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>To transfer the environment to the next step you can do the following:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>$MT_MEGATEST -env2file .ezsteps/${stepname}</tt></pre>
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<h2 id="_example_appendix">Appendix A: Example Appendix</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>One or more optional appendixes go here at section level zero.</p></div>
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