[Avocado-devel] Avocado 0.17.0 released!

[Alex Jia]

On 12/16/2014 05:31 AM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> Hello everyone:
>
> I'm here to tell you that we have released Avocado 0.17.0! We are 
> particularly proud of this release, since it fixes a couple of long 
> standing bugs, and also provides some awesome new features:
>

Hello Lucas, thanks! it's a good news, I will give a try if I have the time.

> New features:
>
> avocado:
>
> * HTML job report plugin, that gives users the ability to generate a 
> nice and good looking report of the testing activities.
> * --wrapper feature, that allows users to write scripts to wrap the 
> execution of test commands. You can use it to profile your QEMU 
> instance during the test with perf/ltrace, for example.
> * Support for the GDB remote protocol inside avocado.
> * A new config plugin, that allows users to see the current 
> configuration keys set for their particular instances of avocado, and 
> help you to modify values if you wish so.
> * Tweaks and documentation improvements in the requirements.txt file, 
> and the split of the file into other requirements files, with more 
> specific purpose.
> * Fix a deadlock that occurred when the main test code has an early 
> abort.
> * Fix a temporary dir issue, that had potential security implications.
>
> avocado-virt plugin:
>
> * Introduction of QEMU command line templates, to make it easier for 
> people to provide specific command lines to be run inside avocado virt 
> specific tests.
> * Fix a bug in migration process end detection, the code is now more 
> robust and reliable.
>
> avocado-server:
>
> * Introduction of software components and test environment data 
> models, preparing the server for a big feature: Automated bisection of 
> failed tests.
>
> infrastructure:
>
> * Avocado has now a web page, courtesy of github pages:
>
> http://avocado-framework.github.io/
>
> We hope you like it! Please let us know what you think.

I really like it, this navigation page are not very beautiful, but also 
tell you what the avocado is :)

>
> Get avocado!
>
> The link below has instructions on how to get started with avocado:
>
> http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.org/en/latest/GetStartedGuide.html
>
> Happy automated testing with avocado!
>
>
> The avocado team
>
>
>
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