[Avocado-devel] Avocado 0.27.0 released!

[Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues]

Hi guys, here I am, announcing yet another avocado release! The most 
exciting news for this release is that our avocado-vt plugin was merged 
with the virt-test project. The avocado-vt plugin will be very 
important for QEMU/KVM/Libvirt developers, so the main avocado received 
updates to better support the goal of having a good quality avocado-vt.

Changes in avocado:

* The avocado human output received some tweaks and it's more compact, 
while still being informative. Here's an example:

        JOB ID     : f2f5060440bd57cba646c1f223ec8c40d03f539b
        JOB LOG    : 
/home/user/avocado/job-results/job-2015-07-27T17.13-f2f5060/job.log
        JOB HTML   : 
/home/user/avocado/job-results/job-2015-07-27T17.13-f2f5060/html/results.html
        TESTS      : 1
        (1/1) passtest.py:PassTest.test: PASS (0.00 s)
        RESULTS    : PASS 1 | ERROR 0 | FAIL 0 | SKIP 0 | WARN 0 | 
INTERRUPT 0
        TIME       : 0.00 s

* The avocado test loader was refactored and behaves more consistently 
in different test loading scenarios.
* The `utils` API received new modules and functions:
  * NEW avocado.utils.cpu: APIs related to CPU information on linux 
boxes [1]
  * NEW avocado.utils.git: APIs to clone/update git repos [2]
  * NEW avocado.utils.iso9660: Get information about ISO files [3]
  * NEW avocado.utils.service: APIs to control services on linux boxes 
(systemv and systemd) [4]
  * NEW avocado.utils.output: APIs that help avocado based CLI programs 
to display results to users [5]
  * UPDATE avocado.utils.download: Add url_download_interactive
  * UPDATE avocado.utils.download: Add new params to get_file

* Bugfixes. You may refer to [6] for the full list of 64 commits.

Changes in avocado-vt:

* Merged virt-test into avocado-vt. Basically, the virt-test core 
library (virttest) replaced most uses of autotest by equivalent avocado 
API calls, and its code was brought up to the virt-test repository [7]. 
This means, among other things, that you can simply install avocado-vt 
through RPM and enjoy all the virt tests without having to clone 
another repository manually to bootstrap your tests. More details about 
the process will be sent on an e-mail to the avocado and virt-test 
mailing lists. Please go to [7] for instructions on how to get started 
with all our new tools.

See you in a couple of weeks for our next release! Happy testing!

The avocado development team

Links

[1] 
http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api/utils/avocado.utils.html#module-avocado.utils.cpu
[2] 
http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api/utils/avocado.utils.html#module-avocado.utils.git
[3] 
http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api/utils/avocado.utils.html#module-avocado.utils.iso9660
[4] 
http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api/utils/avocado.utils.html#module-avocado.utils.service
[5] 
http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api/utils/avocado.utils.html#module-avocado.utils.output
[6] https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/compare/0.26.0...0.27.0
[7] 
https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado-vt/commit/20dd39ef00db712f78419f07b10b8f8edbd19942
[8] http://avocado-vt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/GetStartedGuide.html