Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Oct 2000 15:34:47 -0500 | From | Nathan Straz <> | Subject | Re: three kernel trees? |
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On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 06:13:34PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Kenneth Johansson wrote: > > "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > > This does not solve the problem of integration testing, but eh solution > > > here is to create an integration test group whose sole charter is to > > > test modules in an integrated framework as they roll off the assembly > > > line. I am speaking from my commercial software development experienes > > > > Good luck finding anyone doing this job. It's hard to make people write > > documentation this is going to be impossible. This is a solution that works if you > > can pay people but I don't think it's going to work when volunteers is doing it. > > Well. It gets done today, so who is doing this today?
To what extent? Integration testing with as much hardware as possible? The community as a whole does that. Automated integration testing? Please step forward for recognition if you are.
Automated functional testing of the kernel? Yes, SGI is working on that. We still have a lot of work to do to get reasonable coverage, but we do have employees testing Linux. We have released some tests and a simple test driver under the Linux Test Project.
If anyone has tests they would like to contribute to LTP, please send them to me. I will try to get the tests integrated into an automated system. The way I see it, if we can pull all of the home grown tests out of the wood work, we will have a better testing system than the defacto "build the kernel" system.
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