Detect if tests are running on test engineer's machine.

[vgrigoruk]

Would be a huge improvement! Looking forward to see this volkswagen 2.0

[auchenberg]

Any hints on how we would be able to achieve this?

[anko]

Idea: Use presence of certain programs in $PATH as a heuristic. Test engineers are more likely to have afl-fuzz, valgrind or other testing tools installed.

[claviola]

There are several possible tests: check for an interactive shell, the presence of a window manager, matching running processes like browsers and so on.

[archersmind]

My ideal: Check if the test machine is well configured.
Or we can check many other items, and score them with certain point. If the total score is above 60 , we dare to say it's a machine used by human. 😆

[watson]

@archersmind actually a really interesting problem to solve 😃

[archersmind]

@watson Yes, Of course. Let's gather more opinions.
Just have the thought, it's going to be the Turing test problem ? Even more fun 💻

[kunaltyagi]

The check can be as simple as checking for stdin, or $PS1 or a custom env var or tty -s which ends with no error on interactive shells. Best of all, these will work even on SSH, but definitely not in a batch command (script file).