In this presentation, Alex Brett will show how Citrix has constructed a Test-as-a-Service environment which is used by the wider XenServer engineering team, highlighting the benefits the approach provides, together with an introduction to the (recently open sourced) XenRT automation framework which powers it, and discuss how this could be applied within the Xen Project community.
osstest is the system which does the Xen.org automatic tests of Xen. The push gates, which try to prevent important regressions from reaching the main stable and evelopment trees, are managed by osstest.
In this talk I will give a brief overview of the system, focussed on how to add new tests.
Ian is a longstanding contributor to the Xen Project, working for Citrix as Xen committer, maintainer, security team member, CI system owner, etc. Ian's other interests include a strong connection to the Debian Project.
Thursday October 24, 2013 2:30pm - 2:45pm BST
Moorfoot HallEdinburgh International Conference Centre
Hardware performance monitoring facilities such as counters can provide invaluable information about system behavior. In recent years, Linux 'perf' has become the standard tool for managing these facilities and interpreting data that they generate. In this talk we will discuss changes to Xen and Linux that will allow PV guests (including dom0) use perf for profiling themselves and, in the case of dom0, the hypervisor.
