Testing automation tool suited for operation team

Question

I would like to start using an testing framework that does the following:

• contains an process(the process can be a test) management engine. It is able to start processes(tests) with the help of a scheduler
  
• it is distributed, processes can run locally or on other machines
  
• tests can be anything:
  
• simple telnet on a given port (infrastructure testing)
  
• a disk I/O or mysql benckmark
  
• a jar exported from Selenium that does acceptance testing
  
• will need to know if the test passed or not
  
• has the capability to get real time data from the test(something like graphite) -- this is optional
  
• allows processes to be build in many programing languages: perl, ruby, C, bash
  
• has a graphical interface
  
• open-source
  
• written in any language as long as it doesn't use resources , I would prefer C, perl or ruby
  
• to run on linux
  
  What not to be:
  
• an add on to a browser: Selenium, BITE ..
  

I do not want something focused on web development

I will like to use such a tool or maybe collaborate on building one. I hope I was explicit enough. Thank you .

Answer 1

You might want to look at the robot framework combined with jenkins. Robotframework is a tool written in python for doing keyword-based acceptance testing. Jenkins is a continuous integration tool which allows you to schedule jobs, and distribute jobs amongst a grid of nodes.

Robotframework tests can do anything python can do, plus a whole lot more. It has a remote interface, which means you can write test keywords in just about any language. For example, I had a job where we had keywords written in Java. In another job we used robotframework with .NET-based keywords. This can be accomplished via a remote interface (so you can write keywords in many different languages) or you can run robot using jython to run on the JVM, or iron python to run in a .NET environment.