Open Source Testing Framework for Handling A Multiple Product Stack

摘要

For mission-critical and safety-critical systems, Open Source will not work without some concept of "open trust", defined as a kind of open record on how the Open Source component has been tested for performance and reliability. We describe here one approach to developing such open trust. The Scalable Test Platform (STP) Project at Open Source Development Lab (OSDL). The STP is a fully automated system for building, integrating, and testing software products on a variety of computer environments. Automated performance and regression tests can be run against fully integrated product stacks. The project consists of two major components: 1. Patch Lifecycle Manager(PLM)-Handles the access to the product source and build information, manages relationships between source trees and discrete patches, compiles source and provides source or a compiled binary. 2. Scalable Test Platform(STP)-Manages a set of hosts which execute tests using PLM to build product stacks. Its web interface allows user access to submit and browse test requests. The STP is an open source project published under the GNU General Public License and available through http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/stp. It is designed primarily for testing the Linux Kernel, but has been extended to other open source software and could be used for commercial software as well. OSDL makes an instance available to developers and others interested in testing open source software.