Re: [Qemu-devel] Who is running QEMU automated tests, and when?

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 26.04.2018 16:22, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 03:14:00PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 04:09:55PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>> On 26.04.2018 15:57, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>>>> (Starting a new thread, for more visibility)
>>>>
>>>> (This was: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] tests/device-introspect: Test
>>>> devices with all machines, not only with "none")
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 01:54:43PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>>> I don't mind having make check SPEED=slow run more extensive tests.
>>>>> Assuming we actually run them at least once in a while, which seems
>>>>> doubtful.
>>>>
>>>> We probably don't do that, but we really must be running a more
>>>> extensive (and slower) test set at least once before every
>>>> release.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe some people are running SPEED=slow tests, or even more
>>>> extensive test suites like avocado-vt once in a while, but we
>>>> need to know who is running them, and when.
>>>
>>> At least I am running "make check SPEED=slow" manually from time to
>>> time, especially when we enter the hard freeze period.
>>
>> Hmm, we could get this done by travis. It has the concept of "cron jobs"
>> for scheduling builds separately from pushes.
>>
>> So we could keep the current travis jobs unchanged, but then add an
>> use of SPEED=slow when TRAVIS_EVENT_TYPE == "cron" in the travis.yml,
>> so we can get SPEED=slow run once a day. Just have to be careful which
>> jobs we make slow so we don't hit the 50 minute timeout.
> 
> I expect SPEED=slow tests to eventually take longer than 50
> minutes, but we can try this and see what happens.

I already had to move some of the slow tests to SPEED=slow mode in the
past due to the travis timeouts (which are hit when the machines are
very loaded), so my guess is that SPEED=slow will hardly work with travis.

 Thomas