#3052 PR `merged`: Enable automated backup & recovery test in CI on PRs¶

Labels: enhancement, fixed / solved / done, ReaR Project

pcahyna opened issue at 2023-10-04 09:42:¶

Pull Request Details:¶

Type: Enhancement
Impact: Normal
Reference to related issue (URL): closes #3014
How was this pull request tested?

CI will test it - see the testing-farm: runs

Brief description of the changes in this pull request:

Add a test plan (https://tmt.readthedocs.io/en/stable/spec/plans.html) defined using the TMT (https://tmt.readthedocs.io/) metadata format. The test plan currently runs one test: make-backup-and-restore-iso from https://github.com/rear/rear-integration-tests (see https://github.com/rear/rear-integration-tests/pull/3). The test plan is executed by Packit using the Testing Farm infrastructure on the Packit RPM builds for CentOS 8 Stream, CentOS 9 Stream, Fedora 37 and Fedora 38 (see https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/3017 for the reason why not on newer Fedora versions yet).

Since Packit gets triggered on PRs and builds RPMs from the code in the branch of the PR (more precisely, it merges the PR branch with the target branch before building, https://packit.dev/docs/configuration/#merge_pr_in_ci), this will serve as a CI test for every newly proposed change.

For those interested in technical details of this test, it is described in @antonvoznia 's diploma thesis - https://dspace.cvut.cz/handle/10467/107238 , which has already resulted in our ShellCheck configuration ( https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/2976 ).

pcahyna commented at 2023-10-04 11:26:¶

@rear/contributors I think this change is not particularly controversial, so I would like to merge it soon (ideally this week).

jsmeix commented at 2023-10-04 14:24:¶

@antonvoznia @pcahyna
thank you for this enhancement!
I think such a test (regardless how simple it is)
helps us a lot to see immediately when very basic things
would go wrong because of changes in a pull request.

pcahyna commented at 2023-10-04 16:02:¶

@jsmeix I suggest to rebase open PRs on top of this merge - they will then benefit from the new test.

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