Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) distributions are the
results of the effort of third party actors in collecting
independently developed software products, in a consistent
and usable form. The widespread adoption of these
distributions as infrastructural components in many
strategic contexts of the information technology society has
drawn the attention on the issues regarding how to handle
the complexity of assembling and managing a huge number of
(packaged) components and how to guarantee their quality.
This tutorial will describe how the EDOS project has tackled
these issues. First it will describe the problems related to
the quality assurance of Linux distributions and will
present the tools that have been developed to manage testing
process. It will then introduce the problems that occur when
managing inter-package relations in large package
repositories and will showcase tools that can be used to
analyze and manage large package repositories.
Target audience:
OSS distributions practitioners, developers, testers.
Keywords: OSS Quality Assurance, OSS Distributions, Packages, Linux Distributions Management Tools.
Program:
The tutorial will consist of two parts.
The first part will introduce the issues related to testing
and quality assurance of heterogeneous open source packages
and present tools developed in the EDOS project for managing
Linux distribution testing and quality assurance processes.
The tutorial will detail the use of the following tools:
In the second one we will briefly introduce the problems regarding the management of inter-package relations (dependencies and conflicts) in large package repositories and present a tool set that can be used by distribution editors to analyze and manipulate repositories in order to find potential problems due to incorrect relation specifications. The tutorial will focus on the following tools:
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