This page describes a possible Summer of Code project for a testing infrastructure for PyPI.

Contact: Tarek Ziadé <tarek@ziade.org> or Alexis Métaireau <alexis@notmyidea.org>

PyPI has recently gained a PubSubHubBub interface we can use to trigger events when a new package is uploaded.

The student work to be done is :

• compare and chose the best virtual environment for the testing infrastructure we need
• create a initial collections of clean VMs
• study tools like systemtap to be able to report what happens on a box
• create a set of scripts to drive the Virtual Machines (Linux only is acceptable) :
  • start the VM
  • set up the VM for the tests (firewall, probes, etc.)
  • upload content and run commands over the VM
  • get back the reports
  • perform rollback

• create a PubSubHubBub daemon

  • trigger the tests for each upload events
  • store the report
• create a website
  • display the reports
  • create a registry system for people to get reports by emails

The final piece of software should be extensible by a plugin system (adding test-cases to PyPI testing infrastructure).