Tapper - A flexible and open test infrastructure
Tapper is a modular, flexible and open test infrastructure.
It's only primary assumption is the ubiquitous use of the Test Anything Protocol (TAP). Internally it is based on technology known from the CPAN testing infrastructure, extending it with automation and advanced querying.
It allows to setup a test infrastructure, consisting of
to where tests can send their results for storage and later evaluation, using a DPath based query language over a history of TAP-DOMs.
to allow QA in very low-level, toolchain constrained environments, like OS testing or embedded platforms
Tapper originated in the AMD Operating System Research Center (OSRC), where it is used for extreme continuous integration testing of everything: from software toolchains over Linux to Xen and KVM.
It is also used in the Perl benchmarking infrastructure Perl::Formance.
Most of Tapper is OS and platform independent (x86, ARM) to cover broad range of test targets. Only the central automation layer (MCP) is a bit Linux centric in its use of external dependencies.
Via IRC you can contact us in channel
#tapper
on
irc.freenode.net
There is a mailing list tapper@amd64.org.
AMD OSRC Tapper Team <tapper@amd64.org>
This software is Copyright (c) 2012 by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc..
This is free software, licensed under:
The (two-clause) FreeBSD License
To install Tapper, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Tapper
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Tapper
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.