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[Soren Hansen <soren@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I agree with Andreas that testing stuff that shells out all over the
> place can be difficult. One idea would be to isolate all the
> shelling-out behind some kind of facade module that we could mock out
> when writing tests. That way we can establish expectations and feed
> back data from the facade that allows us to verify our assumptions. If
> you guys think this could be a good idea, I'll see about tackling this
> once I put up some code coverage stuff you can bang on.

I think this sounds fantastic. It would probably also be helpful in
making VMBuilder usable on other distros as well.

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Soren Hansen                 | 
Lead virtualisation engineer | Ubuntu Server Team
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