Jim Walker: Sun Software Engineer

The Test Development Project page on opensolaris.org has been established at:
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/test-dev/

In the next few weeks we will be adding more content, including:

- Solaris Test Collection source and package repository
- Open HA Cluster Test source and package repository
- Test Framework and Test Tools information pages

And, that's just the beginning...

To get involved with the OpenSolaris test development discussion, you can subscribe to the test-dev discussion list at:
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/test-dev/discussions/

We look forward to having more contributors to the project.

Cheers,

Initial Test Development Project Team

Joel Buckley
Thelan Nguyen
Clarence Nie
U.V. Ravindra
Jim Walker
Sean Wilcox

Visit the Testing Community for more information.

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.