Exploring openSUSE's automated testing tool for ISO images

Bakers and burners

© Lead Image © Markus Feilner, CC-BY-SA 4.0

© Lead Image © Markus Feilner, CC-BY-SA 4.0

Article from Issue 175/2015
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Quality Assurance is "like a baker testing his recipe for a cake by trying it once it is out of the oven," says Bernhard Wiedemann, inventor of openQA. OpenSUSE's openQA project is a powerful tool for testing Linux distributions – and even Android images.

Life's too short for manual testing, says the website for openQA [1] (Figure 1), and most software developers will agree. Many developers feel like Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times, working in a factory, repeating the very same steps over and over again.

Figure 1: The website for openQA gives precise data on current tests.

Most available server software, especially when it is offering APIs, can be tested by specially written clients that perform the very same tasks over and over again, counting success or failure. But what about desktop software, and what about distributions?

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