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[Francis Ginther <francis.ginther@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This has been one of the differences between upstream merger and image
testing. After seeing a disaster related to unity8 and the inability
to revert back to a usable device after running an MP, I've
implemented a solution to reflash the test device after each run. The
tests then assume that the device is clean when the
generic-mediumtests-runner-maguro or generic-mediumtests-runner-mako
starts.

The two concerns I have with this are devices falling over due to the
flash and creating a backlog due to the extra time needed. I'll be
watching this closely today.

The flash is done with http://10.97.0.26:8080/job/touch-flash-device/,
which takes the slave $NODE_NAME from the runner job and dispatches
the correct touch-flash-$slave job. The touch-flash-* jobs have a
higher priority than the generic-mediumtests-runner-* jobs to work out
the scheduling. The flash job is also triggered before the testing
actually starts to make sure it's in the queue as soon as possible.

Francis
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Francis Ginther
Canonical - Ubuntu Engineering - Quality Engineer