Galasa Learning Material

[James-Cocker]

Story

As a new Galasa user, I want to have helpful guides to help me set up the project, so that Galasa gets more engagement.

Tasks

• Look over Improvements to the Galasa docs #2348

Separate playlist explaining some core managers

• Overview video that includes <1 min explanation of every core manager
• Docker manager (spin up new containers as a part of the test).
• Core Manager
• Z/OS
• zos3270 + 3270 image
• ...
• Custom managers !!!! Currently no docs or videos

Step 1 - automate a few key tests and run locally

• Create a simpler example to Galasa SimBank in the docs.
• Follow existing example with more other managers
• Debugging in vscode

Step 2 - get a healthy number of tests automated and incorporate running of the tests into your CI pipeline.

• Take Galasa SimBank and create a container to run within GitHub actions (Eamonn has an example in his galasa-automation-demo repo).

Step 3 - only when the number of tests you have is becoming unmanageable do you set up the whole Galasa environment

• Currently no concrete example in the docs, create one
• Might scare people away, but a high level video walking through the ecosystem architecture
• Use minikube to install helm chart and configuration
• Deploying/ configure tests to maven repo and create test stream
• Different ways of running and submitting tests on ecosystem (inc. portfolio)
• Different ways of retrying and cancelling tests
• galasactl runs get, download tests with different flags
• Webui to view and download results