Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 1997 21:07:13 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Kernel testing |
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> > confidence. > > > > > But, let me suggest the Posix conformance suites as a good first past > > > test for stupid brokeness. > > > > This was something I was considering, and looking at the redistribution > > license (http://www.itl.nist.gov/div897/ctg/softagre.htm), it looks like > > the NIST code could be incorporated into a GPLed test suite because it's > > produced by the government and therefore not protected by copyright. > > A sick thought crossed my mind ... What if we doing something > similar to what the cryptography folks are doing. Have people run the > stress test when they want, how ever long they want, and have it > communicate with a main server someplace which will keep track of these > things ... > What do you people think? > > -Seth
That it is unnecesarily complex, and you can only report success, anyway. If it crashes, you can't expect that machine to report it :-). [You need human beings in this process...]
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