There where some broken links so fix those up with proper references
to the devel docs. I also did a little light copy-editing to reflect
the current state and broke up a paragraph to reduce the "wall of
text" effect.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220527153603.887929-34-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To understand the current state of QEMU CI/testing and have a base to
discuss the plans for the future, it is important to define some usual
terms. This patch defines the terms for "Automated tests", "Unit
testing", "Functional testing", "System testing", "Flaky tests",
"Gating", and "Continuous Integration".
Signed-off-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210831152939.97570-2-willianr@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
This splits the CI docs into one file talking about job setup and usage
and another file describing provisioning of custom runners.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210812180403.4129067-2-berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
We introduced the QEMU_CI_AVOCADO_TESTING variable in commit f56bf4caf
("gitlab: Run Avocado tests manually (except mainstream CI)"), but
forgot to document it properly. Do it now.
Suggested-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210727142431.1672530-2-philmd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To have the jobs dispatched to custom runners, gitlab-runner must
be installed, active as a service and properly configured. The
variables file and playbook introduced here should help with those
steps.
The playbook introduced here covers the Linux distributions and
has been primarily tested on OS/machines that the QEMU project
has available to act as runners, namely:
* Ubuntu 20.04 on aarch64
* Ubuntu 18.04 on s390x
But, it should work on all other Linux distributions. Earlier
versions were tested on FreeBSD too, so chances of success are
high.
Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20210630012619.115262-4-crosa@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210709143005.1554-4-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To run basic jobs on custom runners, the environment needs to be
properly set up. The most common requirement is having the right
packages installed.
The playbook introduced here covers the QEMU's project s390x and
aarch64 machines. At the time this is being proposed, those machines
have already had this playbook applied to them.
Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20210630012619.115262-3-crosa@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210709143005.1554-3-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
As described in the included documentation, the "custom runner" jobs
extend the GitLab CI jobs already in place. One of their primary
goals of catching and preventing regressions on a wider number of host
systems than the ones provided by GitLab's shared runners.
This sets the stage in which other community members can add their own
machine configuration documentation/scripts, and accompanying job
definitions. As a general rule, those newly added contributed jobs
should run as "non-gating", until their reliability is verified (AKA
"allow_failure: true").
Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210630012619.115262-2-crosa@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210709143005.1554-2-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
