Jim Walker: Sun Software Engineer

The Sun Fire x2270 runs cool but is very hot!
I added one to the Broomfield, Colorado test farm site. Eric Saxe is running it through it's paces for the tickless project. Darrin Johnson sent four to me and we will be adding them for the tickless project. I love the 1TB drives and the great speed. I plan to get more for general use in the next couple months.

Lets say you need to build and test a cool new OpenSolaris app and all you have is an iPhone. What do you do?

It turns out you can access advanced Sun servers and reserve a test zone using Safari and use SSH terminal apps like TouchTerm (free) all from an iPhone. Granted, this isn't the most ergonomic environment, but if you just need to kick off a new build or test run or fix that one character typo that caused your build to fail, it's fine. And it's amazing that a little handheld device can control big servers around the world.

(Now, unto remote terminal access using VNC

Today we released the development zone interface and opened access to the OpenSolaris Test Farm to all OpenSolaris users.

The OpenSolaris Test Farm build server interface was released today.

This months FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) meeting is on Thursday, September 27th 2007. I will give a presentation on OpenSolaris Testing.

Along with that we will have people on hand to help you install Solaris or help with any issues you may have.

! FREE OpenSolaris Starter Kits & Solaris Express Developer Edition DVD's !

About the presentation:
The OpenSolaris Testing presentation will discuss some of the current OpenSolaris Testing Community initiatives, including open source test suites, OpenSolaris Self-Service Testing, the OpenSolaris test farm, and how OpenSolaris developers and test engineers can use and contribute to these resources to help ensure the quality of the OpenSolaris code base. The presentation will include live demos of the Self-Service Testing application, the test farm reservation tool and remote testing using test farm machines. In addition, Jim will give a short overview of the Mercurial source control management system used by OpenSolaris.
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/testing/
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/

The presentation will be posted on http://frosug.org prior to the meeting.

About our presenter:
Jim Walker is a Staff Software Engineer at Sun Microsystems and a member of the Solaris Quality Engineering organization. Jim joined Sun in 2002, and was the test lead for UFS, Default Logging, Multi-Terabyte UFS and the ZFS projects, and is currently the test lead for OpenSolaris and the SCM-Migration project. He is also one of the rotating leaders of FROSUG. Jim studied Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Purdue University and Computer Science and Business Management at the University of Colorado. He has traveled extensively and enjoys his home in Boulder, Colorado with his lovely and wonderful wife Suzanne.

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Meeting Details:

When: Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Times:
6:00pm - 6:30pm Doors open and Pizza
6:30pm - 8:30pm OpenSolaris Testing

Where:
Sun Broomfield Campus
Building 1 - Conference Center
500 Eldorado Blvd.
Broomfield, CO 80021

Dialin: 866-545-5220
Access Code: 9303067

The meeting is free and open to the public.

Pizza and soft drinks will be served at the beginning of the meeting. Please RSVP to rsvp (AT) frosug (DOT) org in order to help us plan for food and setup access to the Sun campus.

We hope to see you there!
Thanks,
FROSUG

We have the first rack in place and have pictures of the OpenSolaris Test Farm. We are in the process of completing the install and setup automation and reservation tool. Once we get things finished up, its going to allow OpenSolaris Contributors to unit test their software on various platforms, which will speed-up the integration process into the OpenSolaris code base.