Checkbox¶
Checkbox is a flexible test automation software. It’s the main tool used in Ubuntu Certification program.
You can use checkbox without any modification to check if your system is behaving correctly or you can develop your own set of tests to check your needs. See Checkbox tutorials for details.
Installation¶
Checkbox can be installed from a PPA (recommended) or pypi on Ubuntu Precise (12.04) or newer.
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hardware-certification/public && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install checkbox-ng
Table of contents¶
- Using Checkbox
- Understanding Checkbox
- Checkbox tutorials
- Checkbox Remote
- Checkbox Unit Types
- Reporting Bugs
- The “Checkbox Stack”
- Checkbox launchers tutorial
- Side-loading Providers
- Configuration values resolution order
- Checkbox nested test plans tutorial
- Quick start
- Use cases
- How to use a base test plan?
- How to use a base test plan, but without running them last?
- How to change category or certification status of jobs coming from nested parts?
- How to include a nested part from another namespace?
- Is it possible to have multiple levels of nesting?
- How to use a base test plan except a few jobs?
- Known limitations
- Contributing to Snappy Testing with Checkbox
- Running Checkbox on Ubuntu Core
- Creating a custom Checkbox application for Ubuntu Core testing
- Glossary