Ryan, Michael: I absolutely agree that the ability to debug stuff is important, but the ability to make things straightforward to use from the web interface or cli is also important. A longer term goal is to have our test farm and make any developer able to schedule a job on the test farm easily and conveniently. Having the dictionaries generated on the job debug directory seems like a good compromise to me. Also we can come up with a smart way of parsing the config file generated by a given control file in a similar way we do today with kvm_config.py, it shouldn't be that hard to do it... (I hope I won't burn my tongue with this statement). Thanks for your input! On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Ryan Harper <ryanh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > * Michael Goldish <mgoldish@xxxxxxxxxx> [2009-10-28 10:43]: >> >> ----- "Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues" <lmr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > One thing that just occurred to me is, if we have a test config >> > "library" as you said, it's perfectly possible to put the actual test >> > set definitions and other config files inside the control file as >> > strings. This way one can control configuration inside the control >> > file, >> > making it more convenient for usage, let's say, inside the autotest >> > web >> > interface. Since the control file would be reduced in size, the >> > configuration snippets being in the control file would not be a huge >> > problem, while keeping the original autotest philosophy of keeping >> > stuff inside the control file... What do you think? >> >> Sounds great, except it won't allow you to debug your configuration >> using kvm_config.py. So the question now is what's more important -- >> the ability to debug or ease of use when running from the server. > > +1 debug > > When creating new test scenarios I make *heavy* use of kvm_config.py; > I'd be lost without being able to debug test configuration files. > > -- > Ryan Harper > Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center > IBM Corp., Austin, Tx > ryanh@xxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ > Autotest mailing list > Autotest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://test.kernel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/autotest > -- Lucas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
