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Explore the use of consoles calling ssh in tests rather than ssh-based backend terminals can improve stability and reviewability

Added by okurz over 5 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.

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New
Priority:
Low
Assignee:
-
Category:
Feature requests
Target version:
QA (public) - future
Start date:
2019-08-08
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Motivation

Some backends use ssh but have some instabilities as well as inefficiencies, e.g. using password based authentication including needle checking. If something goes wrong in this process the test reviewers are often confused which component triggered the ssh connection and struggle to debug. Using consoles in tests explicitly calling ssh as in
https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse/pull/8099/files#diff-a2a433d5914343b617ae52ac0fb40524R778 could help, also because we can use ssh configs and ssh key based authentication

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