Re: [Tails-dev] Testing with openqa?

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Author: intrigeri
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Testing with openqa?
Alan wrote (23 Aug 2015 13:28:41 GMT) :
> but I encourage the people working on the test suite to have a look
> at OpenQA and consider wether it would make sense to use it. It has
> a nice web interface to update screenshots, and we would share
> maintenance with other distros.


I've had a look during DebConf, and indeed the web interface for
developers is much better than what Jenkins will give us as-is.
Perhaps at some point we'll need $something that extracts data from
Jenkins and presents it to developers, and at that point it may be
worth looking into OpenQA.

Note that tests are written directly in Perl, with no overlay language
like Gherkin. Not as if we were taking much benefit from Gherkin for
{intra,inter}-team communication yet, but I like it that we're able to;
and I intend to try to use Gherkin more in the future when discussing
changes with UX folks.

Cheers,
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intrigeri