[Avocado-devel] Avocado release 0.32.0: Road Runner

[Cleber Rosa]

Avocado release 0.32.0: Road Runner
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Hi everyone! A new year brings a new Avocado release as the result of
Sprint #32: Avocado 0.32.0, aka, "Road Runner".

The major changes introduced in the previous releases were put to
trial on this release cycle, and as a result, we have responded with
documentation updates and also many fixes. This release also marks the
introduction of a great feature by a new member of our team: Amador
Pahim brought us the Job Replay feature! Kudos!!!

So, for Avocado the main changes are:

* Job Replay: users can now easily re-run previous jobs by using the
  --replay command line option. This will re-run the job with the same
  tests, configuration and multiplexer variants that were used on the
  origin one. By using --replay-test-status, users can, for example,
  only rerun the failed tests of the previous job. For more check
  our docs[1].
* Documentation changes in response to our users feedback, specially
  regarding the setup.py install/develop requirement.
* Fixed the static detection of test methods when using repeated
  names.
* Ported some Autotest tests to Avocado, now available on their own
  repository[2]. More contributions here are very welcome!

For a complete list of changes please check the Avocado changelog[3].

For Avocado-VT, there were also many changes, including:

* Major documentation updates, making them simpler and more in sync
  with the Avocado documentation style.
* Refactor of the code under the avocado_vt namespace. Previously
  most of the code lived under the plugin file itself, now it
  better resembles the structure in Avocado and the plugin files
  are hopefully easier to grasp.

Again, for a complete list of changes please check the Avocado-VT
changelog[4].

Install avocado
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Instructions are available in our documentation on how to install
either with packages or from source[5].

Updated RPM packages are be available in the project repos for
Fedora 22, Fedora 23, EPEL 6 and EPEL 7.

Happy hacking and testing!

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[1] http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.org/en/0.32.0/Replay.html
[2] http://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado-misc-tests
[3] https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/compare/0.31.0...0.32.0
[4] https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado-vt/compare/0.31.0...0.32.0
[5] http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.org/en/0.32.0/GetStartedGuide.html