Improving systemd’s integration testing infrastructure (asg2024)

The Sovereign Tech Fund paid Codethink to help improve the integration testing infrastructure of systemd. This talk covers how the integration test suite used to work and what it does now. Systemd's integration test suite used to have a number of shortcomings in terms of features and maintainability. The Sovereign Tech Fund provided an opportunity to improve things, and rewrite the test suite to use a select number of special-purpose tools and Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/de/ about this event: https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/all-systems-go-2024/talk/9JKWCT/