57.0 Star Trek: Discovery

The Avocado team is proud to present another release: Avocado version 57.0, AKA “Star Trek: Discovery”, is now available!

Release documentation: Avocado 57.0

The major changes introduced on this version are listed below, roughly categorized into major topics and intended audience:

Users/Test Writers

  • A new (optional) plugin is available, the “result uploader”. It allows job results to be copied over to a centralized results server at the end of job execution. Please refer to Results Upload Plugin for more information.

  • The avocado.utils.cpu functions, such as avocado.utils.cpu.cpu_oneline_list() now support the S390X architecture.

  • The default_parameters mechanism for setting default parameters on tests has been removed. This was introduced quite early in the Avocado development, and allowed users to set a dictionary at the class level with keys/values that would serve as default parameter values. The recommended approach now, is to just provide default values when calling self.parameters.get within a test method, such as self.parameters.get("key", default="default_value_for_key").

  • The __getattr__ interface for self.params has been removed. It used to allow users to use a syntax such as self.params.key when attempting to access the value for key key. The supported syntax is self.params.get("key") to achieve the same thing.

  • Yet another batch of progress towards Python 3 support. On this release, we have only 3 unittests that FAIL on a Python 3 environment. We even got bug reports of Avocado on Python 3, which makes us believe that it’s already being used. Still, keep in mind that there are still issues, which will hopefully be iron out on the upcoming release(s).

Bug Fixes

  • The avocado.utils.crypto.hash_file() function received fixes for a bug caused by a badly indented block.

  • The Golang Plugin now won’t report a test as found if the GO binary is not available to subsequently run those tests.

  • The output record functionality receives fixes at the API level, so that it’s now possible to enable and disable at the each API call.

  • The subtests filter, that can be added to test references, was fixed and now works properly when added to directories and SIMPLE tests.

  • The avocado.utils.process.FDDrainer now properly flushes its contents and the once ocurring data loss (last line read) is now fixed.

Internal Changes

  • The “multiplexer” related code is being moved outside of the core Avocado. Only the variant plugin interface and support code (but not such an implementation) will remain in core Avocado.

  • A new core avocado.core.parameter module was added and it’s supposed to contain just the implementation of parameters, but no variants and/or multiplexer related code.

  • The sysinfo feature implementation received a code clean up and now relies on the common avocado.utils.process code, to run the commands that will be collected, instead of having its own custom code for handling with output, timeouts, etc.

Other Changes

  • The Avocado project now has a new server that hosts its RPM package repository and some other assets, including the JeOS images used on Avocado-VT. The documentation now points towards the new server and its updated URLs.

For more information, please check out the complete Avocado changelog.

Release Meeting

The Avocado release meetings are now open to the community via Hangouts on Air. The meetings are recorded and made available on the Avocado Test Framework YouTube channel.

For this release, you can watch the meeting on this link.

Sprint theme: https://trello.com/c/fJ1ilSuA/1198-sprint-theme-star-trek-discovery