enhance test tools and build of test infrastructure

[carol.wilhelmy@…]

The OpenSAF test tools and the build of the OpenSAF test infrastructure
require enhancement to accommodate support of new platforms like
Solaris. To do this, I suggest

• enhancing existing documentation
• eliminating unused legacy stuff
• consolidating many scripts into a few simpler scripts
• separating tools for doing build of tests versus setup and running of tests
• replacing the many bash/csh/sh build scripts and makefiles with a simple, clean recursive make structure
• automating as many of the manual steps as possible

This has the additional potential side effects of

• enabling easy maintenance
• enabling support for new platforms (like Solaris)
• enabling parallel builds of tests in the future
• enabling the build of tests for a select service (rather than having to re-build all tests every time)
• reducing the number of questions on the users/devel lists about building and running tests
• enabling easier addition of new tests
• ease-of-use: doing things the same way for all platforms

[adityakar.jha@…]

Currently we are using OpenSAF on Linux platform. We are interested in migrating our applications to Solaris. Can you give us the timeframe for migrating OpenSAF to Solaris platfrom.

regards
Adityakar Jha

[mahesh]

Hi Adityakar Jha,

Bests of my knowledge, Initially this ticket is addressed by Carol.Wilhelmy@… , because of some technical reason it has been handing over to Laurent Faipot.
Its been informed by Carol that Laurent is porting OpenSAF to Solaris, and also been informed that the changes will be sent out patch for review (currently I am waiting for the patch), so Laurent is the better person to provide the timeframe.

Thanks,
AVM.

[fherrm]

Carol is not working for Sun anymore. In case her work could be useful for someone continuing the work on this ticket I uploaded the work done by Carol (4 files).

osaf_test_changes.txt

description of changes

doit.buildtests

convenience script for building on Solaris/Linux

osaftests_20080706.tar.gzip

tar file of all the changes to opensaf/tests

osaftests.diffs

diffs listing of the changed files

[fherrm]

[Carol] description of changes

[fherrm]

[Carol] tar file of all the changes to opensaf/tests

[fherrm]

[Carol] diffs listing of the changed files

[fherrm]

[Carol] Convenience script for building on Solaris/Linux

[zx5337]

It is a good start on the test framework. We should inform Jan of HP that he should integrate this to his work.