Re: Contribution request

Roland Clobus <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Dec 2025 11:10:47 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.quality-assurance
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hello Alexey,

On 23/12/2025 10:26, Alexey Melezhik wrote:
> Hi! I'd like to contribute debian testing automation
> 
> I have an idea of using my own tool to run automated tests for Debian
> OS packages - e.g. installing packages on Debian distro, checking them
> successfully configured, checking that related service is running,
> smoke tests on running services. There is a good experience with using
> the tool for other Linux distros, It'd be interesting to see it with
> Debian OS which is a big distribution containing a lot of packages ...
> 
> I have gone through existing tools on https://qa.debian.org/ pages, I
> have not found as I believe similar tools here, I believe this might
> be a good addition
> 
> Before giving any details, I'd like to answer if there is room for
> such a tool in Debian QA space?

More QA tools help, especially if someone is watching the output of the 
tools :-)

Please provide more details about your tool.

Have you looked at https://openqa.debian.net? Do the tests there match 
what you are intending to automate?

With kind regards,
Roland Clobus
Disclaimer: I'm one of the maintainers of openqa.debian.net

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