The “Checkbox Stack”
The Checkbox Stack is a collection of projects that together constitute a
complete testing and certification solution. It is composed of the following
parts (see table below for extra details). All of the projects are linked to
from the Launchpad project group.
Component Descriptions
Project |
Responsible for |
Type |
Checkbox (CLI) |
- The python command-line interface
- Additional certification APIs
- sending data to Certification
website (C3)
|
Application |
Client Certification
Provider |
- canonical-certification-client
executable
- client certification test plans
|
Provider |
Server Certification
Provider |
- server certification test plans
- additional server test plans
|
Provider |
Checkbox Provider |
- Generic (all platform) job
definitions
- Most of custom “scripts”
- Default and SRU test plans
|
Provider |
Resource Provider |
- Generic resource jobs
- Generic binaries for those jobs
|
Provider |
Snappy Provider |
- Job definitions aimed mostly at
Ubuntu Core systems
- “Snap aware” jobs
|
|
Checkbox Support |
- Support code for various providers
- Parsers for many text formats
|
Library |
PlainBox
(part of Checkbox) |
- Almost all core logic
- RFC822 (job definition) parser
- Configuration handling
- Testing session (suspend/resume)
- Job runner
- Trusted launcher
- Dependency resolver
- Command line handling
- The HTML and XSLX exporters
- and more…
|
Library
and
Development
Toolkit |