6.5. Image Regression Testing

When you're creating a large number of images, testing each one can be critical to verifying a successful deployment. Here are the types of testing you might undertake.

The most straightforward form of image testing is going through the process manually and seeing what happens when you try to do a number of predefined tasks. Doing so requires having a testing system that you can re-image as needed. But manually testing images may give only a fraction of what can be done in the same amount of time if the process is automated. If you have a well-regimented image- and software-deployment environment, the results of testing against specific known configurations typically provide an early warning sign of problems in ...

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