[gin-jobs] Job Endpoint Verification Tests

[Steven Newhouse]

All,

Within the 'GIN management' we have spent some time discussing how we 
can verify the integrity of the emerging infrastructure. At the moment 
we have several pools of resources:
* Pre-WS GRAM
* WS GRAM
* ARC
* JSDL

We need some definition of 'compliance' that can be used by the 
infrastructure verification (testers!) and application community to say 
that a particular resource is working.

I am aware of some old work in the UK in the Grid Integration Test 
Scripts (GITS - http://www.soton.ac.uk/~djb1/gits.html) which may be OK 
for pre-WS GRAM. INCA has verification tests but are designed (I 
believe) to run much more as a background monitoring task than a user 
driven compliance check. Likewise there are monitoring infrastructures 
developed within EGEE bu the GOCs.

We need something lightweight (manual?) that can be triggered by a user 
to see if job submission into these resources works for them from their 
current location. Either a script or a series of documented tests.

So...
1. Do you have a series of manual tests that could be contributed?
2. (Semi-) automated scripts that could be used to verify a resource's 
operation?

Or other approaches/solutions that could be used in this area... now is 
the time to speak up!

Steven
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