QA » openQA Project

Motivation¶

Now we have a CI integration of openQA and pull requests on github can trigger openQA jobs and feed back the result. A challenge for big test matrices is to select which openQA jobs to execute. openqa-clone-custom-git-refspec for years can parse github description (and comments?) for openQA jobs to clone. That can now be integrated together to … be awesome

A comment like this or another format can be used in PR descriptions or commits to clone a job:

@openqa: Clone my/test/job/url

Acceptance criteria¶

• AC1: openQA CI integration in any existing test distribution github project automatically runs openQA tests based on links to existing openQA jobs in the github description
• AC2: openQA documentation explains how the CI integration in new test distribution github projects can be setup to run as in AC1

Suggestions¶

• Read what was done originally in #63712 and the according pull request to openQA https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/pull/2618
• Try out openqa-clone-custom-git-ref with special comments
• Follow what the script does, not necessarily need to use it but re-implement or whatever
• Document this feature somewhere
• If you come up with something that works in a github workflow but becomes too big consider creating a github action repository or create an additional feature in our existing scripting

Out of scope¶

• Optional: Passing job customization with test parameter passing
• Optional: Parsing github comments (only the description)
• Optional: Triggering new jobs on updates to the github description
• Optional: Make it work for internal openQA instances