Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Are there kernel testing suites out there? We need them. | Date | Sun, 04 Jul 1999 20:18:04 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
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> Automatic regression tests very rarely help. Most of the bugs that > get into a shipping kernel now are ones I can't reproduce even given a > description let alone find randomly
But if the cost is negligible, even that "rarely" is worth it.
Perhaps a start would be to run Larry McVoy's lmbench? That way you'd see if there are performance regressions too. -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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