Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Aug 2000 13:33:45 -0500 | From | Nathan Straz <> | Subject | Re: [Announce] Linux Test Project |
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On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 07:37:14PM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote: > > - The testing philosophy that is most important to the kernel > > developers. What approach best fits the development process? > > Regression? Functional? Stress? Performance? > Coverage isn't mentioned. If you are interested in doing a coverage test > suite, then you should look into using gcov in conjunction with user-mode > linux (http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net).
While coverage can be useful in some cases, I don't think it is going to be a good benchmark for the Linux kernel. We are going to concentrate more on functional coverage over code coverage. If we do some code coverage work, user-mode Linux would definately be the way to go.
While building user-mode Linux, what do you use for testing? Do you build special test cases for the portions that you recently worked on? If you have any tests, would you care to share them?
Nate
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