Testing: action list

This document lists actionable items discussed in meetings or on IRC.

Community effort (help welcome!)

Unless otherwise stated these items are tracked on the Progress

Tests that use external dependencies rather than setting up their own infrastructure, and therefore are occasionally unstable
List of important modules that don't have integration tests
List of things that need unit tests (e.g libraries under module_utils)
Reviewing test_pull_requests PRs
Tracking and fixing instability issues

Tests to update to stop using requirements.txt -- shaps
Integrate Powershell coding style and syntax checking, coverage support -- jborean93, mattclay #63
Speed up Windows CI testing using own dedicated environment -- nitzmahone, mattclay
Add Windows 2016 (and Windows 10 ?) test targets -- nitzmahone, mattclay
Make httptester available for Windows VMs -- mattclay
Testing ssh connection with flaky network #17754 Maybe doable on AWS guests where we can force latency/packet loss
Update validate-modules to check lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/