Awesome! I have been looking forward to this QA tool for a long time.
Presumably this will also shorten dump job suspension after new software
rollouts?!.
Erik Zachte
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[mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Christian
Aistleitner
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 8:02 PM
To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Test suite for dumping MediaWikis using
xmldumps-backup
Hello everyone,
in the past weeks, I put together "xmldumps-test"---a test suite for
Ariel's
xmldumps-backup software. xmldumps-test tries to assure that the MySQL
database, MediaWiki, and xmldumps-backup play nicely together.
xmldumps-test injects data into the database (so do not use it on a live
database), starts xmldumps-backup, and compares the generated XML dumps
against pre-verified data.
Using xmldumps-test I hope to catch problems caused by modifications to
MediaWiki or xmldumps-backup /before/ they hit Wikimedia's production
servers dumping enwiki, ...
The code is up for review at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/operations/dumps/test.git
.
README serves as general point of entry to the documentation.
README.installation shows you how to set up xmldumps-test.
After setup is completed,
./run_tests.sh
runs all available tests.
xmldumps-test comes with tests for REL1_1{7,8,9} and trunk.
I'd love to get some feedback, or comments on the scripts.
Best regards,
Christian
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