▶️ Intro On the previous post we started our journey with a very simple scenario, and we used a nice feature of the Go programming language to get a measure of how much % of the target program our test is exercising. This time I am going to experiment a Proof of Concept about how we can obtain a test code coverage metric estimation for a normal binary program, without any recompilation. ...
☂️ Intro When your code includes a suite of unit tests, code coverage is an important metric to measure the test effectiveness and it’s rather easy to obtain; there are plenty of tools around. Image credits to: Nataliya Vaitkevich On the other hand, often we also need to do integration or E2E testing, as in our QA journey we are mostly running real world programs instead of single well-chosen functions. Let’s start with a basic use case, and prepare a simple program tailored for this purpose. ...
Why ? During my daily job I have sometimes to debug failed openqa test jobs. One of the testing mantra is to reproduce the issue and for that task the openqa community has developed some tooling. In practice, I often have some output like this one below from some job cloning operations: Cloning parents of sle-15-SP4-Server-DVD-Updates-x86_64-Build20250112-1-fips_ker_mode_gnome@64bit 1 job has been created: - sle-15-SP4-Server-DVD-Updates-x86_64-Build20250112-1-fips_ker_mode_gnome@64bit -> https://openqa.suse.de/tests/16425390 Cloning parents of sle-15-SP5-Server-DVD-Updates-x86_64-Build20250112-1-fips_ker_mode_gnome@64bit 1 job has been created: - sle-15-SP5-Server-DVD-Updates-x86_64-Build20250112-1-fips_ker_mode_gnome@64bit -> https://openqa.suse.de/tests/16425391 Cloning parents of sle-15-SP4-Server-DVD-Updates-x86_64-Build20250112-1-fips_ker_mode_gnome@64bit 1 job has been created: - sle-15-SP4-Server-DVD-Updates-x86_64-Build20250112-1-fips_ker_mode_gnome@64bit -> https://openqa.suse.de/tests/16425392 And when I want to monitor those jobs, I’d need to copy-paste all the job URLs and pass them as arguments to the cool openqa-mon utility which will show and notify me of the job status in the terminal. ...
🎄 Intro After a very interesting and fun SUSE hackweek, as every December since some years, I took part to Advent of Code. First of all, I wish to thank Eric Wastl because he’s giving us every year a great and unforgettable advent-ure. [image source: Reddit u/edo360 ] ✨ What’s Advent of Code ? More than just a countdown to Christmas, AoC is a joyful game that invites developers of all age and levels to sharpen their problem-solving abilities and coding skills. Like a virtual advent calendar, AoC presents a new programming puzzle each day from December 1st to 25th. These puzzles are often deceptively simple at first glance, but they quickly unfold into intricate challenges requiring clever algorithms and efficient code. ...