RE: CVS testing

[Arthur Barrett]

Rory,

CVS is a complex application where 'going down' means many things and
you will require many tests to capture all those meanings.

So you need much more well defined requirements, and then the
requirements will define the tests for you, eg:

- repository file system full/read-only
- repository administration directory corrupt
- repository project directory/files missing or corrupt
- CVS configuration files missing/corrupt (depends on version of CVS 1.x
or 2.x)
- deadlock server down/port 2402 (local)
- server down/port 2401
- replication server down/port 2403
- server unable to instantiate 'cvs server' processes
- ssh server down
- ssh server unable to instantiate 'cvs server' processes
- the 'cvs server' processes unable to authenticate user (pam/local)
- the 'cvs server' process unable to read repository administration
files
- the 'cvs server' process unable to read repository project files
- the 'cvs server' process unable to write repository project files

If you are insterested in this level of detail in monitoring then you
are probably also interested in things like failsafe audit and access
control lists etc as well as vendor support for CVS.  If so please check
out CVS Suite.

Regards,


Arthur Barrett
Product Manager - CVS Suite

March Hare Software Limited
85-87 Bayham Street
Camden Town
London NW1 0AG
United Kingdom

ph: +44 (0) 20 7692 0712
fax: +44 (0) 20 7692 0609


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> Sent: 15 November 2012 22:55
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> Subject: CVS testing
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am looking into testing what happens if CVS is down and 
> tests are trying to run on a machine CVS is on. How can I 
> simulate CVS going down and then running a test on the 
> specific machine to see what happens? In our team it has been 
> set that an email is sent out to say CVS has crashed but I am 
> not sure how to test this to see if the email is sent. Anyone 
> any ideas??
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rory Campbell
> Associate Verification Engineer
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