Test Needed: Ubiquity (Automated Image Installs)

[Nicholas Skaggs]

We'd love to be able to automate installations of image testing via the gui (unlike pre-seeding, etc). This bug will track progress and work. This is a demo of what we are talking about wanting to do, but was done via a different tool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owdb8oMRT8o

[Nicholas Skaggs (nskaggs)]

There is a proof of concept for this now. Try it out; this will be the basis for writing this testcase:

1) Boot into live-cd
2) bzr branch lp:~xnox/ubiquity/autopilot installer
3) cd installer
4) sudo cp bin/ubiquity-wrapper /usr/bin/ubiquity
5) sudo cp ./bin/ubiquity /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
6) cd autopilot
7) In one terminal: ./run_ubiquity
8) In another terminal: ./autopilot run ubiquity

The single test should pass. It checks installer window title is "Install".

[Carla Sella (carla-sella)]

I tried on Saucy.
I first had to install python-autopilot, addin the ppa (sudo add-apt-repository ppa:autopilot/ppa) the sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install python-autopilot.
Oh, and before this had to open "Software & Updates" and turn everything on.

[Nicholas Skaggs (nskaggs)]

Per xnox;
< xnox> balloons: running "autopilot" normally will not work.
<xnox> balloons: one needs to launch autopilot from a wrapper script in that branch & also launch ubiquity via the other wrapper script.
<xnox> balloons: https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~xnox/ubiquity/autopilot/view/head:/autopilot/README
<xnox> balloons: there is integration required between ubiquity & autopilot. Both need to be run as root with exactly the same DBUS environmental variables.
<xnox> balloons: thus the two wrapper scripts. ./run_ubiquity starts ubiquity as root with a fresh session dbus ./autopilot launches autopilot as root with the same dbus and takes the PID of the running ubiquity.
<xnox> balloons: thus to run the test case one would open 2 terminals: start ./run_ubiquity in one, and then in another run all tests ./autopilot run ubiquity

[Dan Chapman  (dpniel)]

I'm gonna have a go at this one :)

[Dan Chapman  (dpniel)]

This is my dev setup

http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/5739965/

I am just placing it here so i don't lose the link :-)