Ceph » Stable releases

Automated tests AKA nightlies¶

The sepia lab runs automated teuthology tests on a regular basis. They are sometime called the nightlies. The schedule of the nightlies is managed by the QE team:

• Sepia
• Ovh

The following script is used in the above crontabs to schedule rados suite.
https://github.com/ceph/ceph-qa-suite/blob/master/machine_types/schedule_rados.sh

List of suites and watchers¶

• suites scheduled to run on current set of supported branches: hammer, infernalis, jewel and master; master runs are used primarily for development purposes, upgrade* tests are not scheduled to run on master.
• big and powercycle suites are run manually

Analyze¶

• See HOWTO forensic analysis of integration and upgrade tests
• sorting out the environmental noise
• create new bugs for errors for which there is no match in the tracker
• add a link to the failed job in pre-existing issues found in the tracker (useful to figure out the frequency and helps with debug when there are multiple outputs / logs)

The ceph-qa mailing list¶

The results of the nightlies are published for analysis on the ceph-qa mailing list. For a given release, the issues that make a job fail in the nightlies need to be backported with a higher priority to reduce the noise.