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diff --git a/poky/documentation/test-manual/test-manual-test-process.xml b/poky/documentation/test-manual/test-manual-test-process.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6e2157c62 --- /dev/null +++ b/poky/documentation/test-manual/test-manual-test-process.xml @@ -0,0 +1,110 @@ +<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" +"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd" +[<!ENTITY % poky SYSTEM "../poky.ent"> %poky; ] > +<!--SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-2.0-UK--> + +<chapter id='test-manual-test-process'> + +<title>Project Testing and Release Process</title> + <section id='test-daily-devel'> + <title>Day to Day Development</title> + + <para>This section details how the project tests changes, through automation on the + Autobuilder or with the assistance of QA teams, through to making releases.</para> + + <para>The project aims to test changes against our test matrix before those changes are + merged into the master branch. As such, changes are queued up in batches either in the + <filename>master-next</filename> branch in the main trees, or in user trees such as + <filename>ross/mut</filename> in <filename>poky-contrib</filename> (Ross Burton + helps review and test patches and this is his testing tree).</para> + <para>We have two broad categories of test builds, including "full" and "quick". On the + Autobuilder, these can be seen as "a-quick" and "a-full", simply for ease of sorting in + the UI. Use our Autobuilder console view to see where me manage most test-related items, + available at: <link linkend="" + >https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/console</link>.</para> + <para>Builds are triggered manually when the test branches are ready. The builds are + monitored by the SWAT team. For additional information, see <link linkend="" + >https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Build_Failure_Swat_Team</link>. If + successful, the changes would usually be merged to the <filename>master</filename> + branch. If not successful, someone would respond to the changes on the mailing list + explaining that there was a failure in testing. The choice of quick or full would depend + on the type of changes and the speed with which the result was required.</para> + <para>The Autobuilder does build the <filename>master</filename> branch once daily for + several reasons, in particular, to ensure the current <filename>master</filename> branch + does build, but also to keep <filename>yocto-testresults</filename> (<link linkend="" + >http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/yocto-testresults/</link>), buildhistory + (<link linkend="">http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-buildhistory/</link>), + and our sstate up to date. On the weekend, there is a master-next build instead to + ensure the test results are updated for the less frequently run targets.</para> + <para>Performance builds (buildperf-* targets in the console) are triggered separately every + six hours and automatically push their results to the buildstats repository at: <link + linkend="">http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/yocto-buildstats/</link>. </para> + <para>The 'quick' targets have been selected to be the ones which catch the most failures or + give the most valuable data. We run 'fast' ptests in this case for example but not the + ones which take a long time. The quick target doesn't include *-lsb builds for all + architectures, some world builds and doesn't trigger performance tests or ltp testing. + The full build includes all these things and is slower but more comprehensive.</para> + </section> + + <section id='test-yocto-project-autobuilder-overview'> + <title>Release Builds</title> + + <para>The project typically has two major releases a year with a six month cadence in April + and October. Between these there would be a number of milestone releases (usually four) + with the final one being stablization only along with point releases of our stable + branches.</para> + <para>The build and release process for these project releases is similar to that in <link + linkend="test-daily-devel">Day to Day Development</link>, in that the a-full target + of the Autobuilder is used but in addition the form is configured to generate and + publish artefacts and the milestone number, version, release candidate number and other + information is entered. The box to "generate an email to QA"is also checked.</para> + <para>When the build completes, an email is sent out using the send-qa-email script in the + <filename>yocto-autobuilder-helper</filename> repository to the list of people + configured for that release. Release builds are placed into a directory in <link + linkend="">https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/releases</link> on the Autobuilder which + is included in the email. The process from here is more manual and control is + effectively passed to release engineering. The next steps include:<itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>QA teams respond to the email saying which tests they plan to run and when + the results will be available.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>QA teams run their tests and share their results in the yocto- + testresults-contrib repository, along with a summary of their findings. + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>Release engineering prepare the release as per their process. </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>Test results from the QA teams are included into the release in separate + directories and also uploaded to the yocto-testresults repository alongside + the other test results for the given revision.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>The QA report in the final release is regenerated using resulttool to + include the new test results and the test summaries from the teams (as + headers to the generated report).</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>The release is checked against the release checklist and release readiness + criteria.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>A final decision on whether to release is made by the YP TSC who have + final oversight on release readiness.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist></para> + </section> + + + + + + + + +</chapter> +<!-- +vim: expandtab tw=80 ts=4 +--> |