SYNOPSIS

Minoca third party packages smoke tests.

Description

• Verify that third party packages are installed successfully
• Optionally run smoke tests for some packages

Caveat!!!

Don't run this plugin on production system, it might be harmful. Use dedicated test boxes.

INSTALL

On running minoca instance:

$ opkg update
$ wget -O - http://sparrowhub.org/minoca.sh | sh # bootstraping sparrow tool
$ sparrow plg install minoca-pkg-test

USAGE

$ sparrow plg run minoca-pkg-test

Resolving packages list

Packages list to check gets build in runtime parsing output of opkg list command.

Overriding package list

If you want to override package list choose --param pkg-list option:

# Check only perl and sqlite packages
$ sparrow plg run minoca-pkg-test --param pkg-list=perl,sqlite

Configuring smoke tests

Smoke tests are shell commands gets executed with output gets analyzed.

Minoca-pkg-test comes with only few smoke tests for some packages, if you want to define new ones it is possible:

$ sparrow project create minoca
$ sparrow task add minoca pkg-check minoca-pkg-test
$ sparrow task ini minoca/pkg-check

<smoke_test>
  <perl>
    command perl --version
    output  This is perl 5
  </perl>
  <sqlite>
    command sqlite3 --version
    output regexp: \d\.\d\.\d
  </sqlite>
  <screen>
    command screen --version
    output regexp: Screen version \d
  </screen>
  <tar>
    command tar --version
    output tar (GNU tar)    
  </tar>
  # bla bla bla
</smoke_test>

$ sparrow task run minoca/pkg-check

Helper actions

List installed packages

To know what packages are already installed use list-installed action.

$ sparrow plg run minoca-pkg-test --param action=list-installed

Author

Alexey Melezhik