[qmtest] some qmtest questions for the community

[Mark Mitchell]

--On Tuesday, October 01, 2002 10:27:41 AM -0400 Mike Carifio 
<carifio at usys.com> wrote:

> 1) Can qmtest gui (zope) be configured to support https? Pointers?

The GUI isn't really ZOPE -- it just uses DTML to do the generation of
HTML for the pages it serves.  The server is built in.

At present, that makes it pretty limited, and, if authentication is
required, problematic.  You could, of course, hide it behind an
Apache proxy, and do the authentication there.

We'd like to enhance the GUI to provide better authentication, but
that's not going to happen in the near term, unless a customer
specifically asks for it.

> 4) Finally, the requirement that qmtest talk to qmtest_remote for
> queuing up
>    tests on remote targets appears onerous, especially when there are
> several
>    target machines (you have to install python and qmtest on every
> potential target).
>    How difficult would it be to use only ssh as the transport and have
> qmtest marshal
>    up the test results on the server machine? Is this doable?
> Ridiculous? I don't know
>    enough about what's happening under the covers to judge...

You need Python on the target machine for fully general test classes.

If you just want to run scripts and such you don't.  In that case, you'd
want to soup up the current script-execution test classes to do
"ssh", and you'd use that rather than the remote support in QMTest itself.

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