Vampire

News

• 2004/02/19: New website
• 2004/02/18: First Vampire release: version 0.2a

Presentation

Vampire is a remote package testing tool written in Python. It takes a pool of tarballs (usually Autotools generated), uploads them on several machines, compiles if needed, runs a check sequence (usually make distcheck) and returns the results as a XML file. It is designed to be flexible enough to run checks on differents systems and environments using user specified connection and upload method.

Features

Vampire features:

• Flexible configuration to get remote shell and to transfer files. Vampire have been tested with ssh, rsh and telnet for sending commands on remote hosts, and it must be able to manage any other utility through a wrapper.
• Class based configuration files to make easier and faster the writing of big configurations.
• Vampire is shipped with a tool to exploit the XML result file: to transform the file to a result summary and to transform the XML file into HTML files.
• Intelligent tarball distribution on hosts according to the load average
• Detailed tests report for each command executed on the remote host.
• Telnet wrapper used to get a remote shell via telnet using a simple command line to pass username, password and shell.

Documentation

Vampire lacks documentation. You can retrieve some user and developer documentation in a Vampire tarball or you can generate it from CVS.

Download

The Savannah download area is not working at the moment. Temporarily you can download the lastest Vampire from the LRDE website:

• vampire-0.2a.tar.bz2
• vampire-0.2a.tar.gz

You can also check out the lastest CVS version via CVS page.

Future

Future features we want for Vampire:

• Daemon/client mode: a daemon mode have been developed but it is disabled because it is not fully usable.
• Complete the XML transformation tool and add other format (ASCII, tex, etc...)

Contact

You may use the Vampire public mailing list: "vampire-public (AT) nongnu.org" to contact authors

Authors

Our Vampire grew up in EPITA Paris, a French Computer Science Engineering School, http://www.epita.fr with the help of the LRDE (EPITA Research and Development Laboratory), http://www.lrde.epita.fr.

• Maxime BIAIS, maxime.biais (AT) epita.fr
• Nicolas BURRUS, nicolas.burrus (AT) lrde.epita.fr
• Pierre GLEYZES, pierre.gleyzes (AT) epita.fr
• Sebastien HENAFF, sebastien.henaff (AT) epita.fr
• Nicolas LE COZ, nicolas.le-coz (AT) epita.fr
• Benoit MEROUZE, benoit.merouze (AT) epita.fr

Thanks to Akim Demaille from LRDE.

Miscellaneous

Check the Vampire project page from Savannah.

Thanks to Savannah for hosting the projet and this website.