Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 04 Nov 2001 17:51:49 -0800 | From | Dan Kegel <> | Subject | Re: Regression testing of 2.4.x before release? |
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Luigi Genoni wrote: > Problem is: > there is a lot of HW out there, and we should ALL do stress tests, to have > a wide basis for HWs and test cases. Basically it is very hard to agree > about a set of stress tests, because we all have different needs, and our > tests are based on our needs. That is a streght, because they tend to be > real life tests.
Sure, no argument there.
> In my esperience, if some default set of tests comes out, then software > tend to be optimized for this set. And that is badly wrong.
My post was motivated by two observations:
1. Alan Cox complains occasionally that Linus' trees are not well tested, and can't survive the torture tests that the ac tree goes through before release. (e.g. "2.4.8-ac12 I'm trying to make sure I can keep this testable as 2.4.9 vanilla isnt being stable on my test sets "
2. The STP at OSDLab seems like a great resource that we might be able to leverage to solve the problem Alan points out.
I'm not suggesting anyone do any less testing. Just the opposite; if we set things up properly with the STP, we might be able to run many more tests before each final release.
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