From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arlie@worldash.org (Arlie Stephens) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 11:41:19 -0700 Subject: Kernel Testing (was Re: Is the Kernel Janitors project still alive?) In-Reply-To: <2559.1374171180@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <3887.1374168386@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20130718175836.GA20722@worldash.org> <2559.1374171180@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Message-ID: <20130718184119.GA20964@worldash.org> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Jul 18 2013, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:58:36 -0700, Arlie Stephens said: > > > Does the linux kernel have any kind of regression test package? If so, > > where can I find it? If not, does anyone know of ongoing attempts to > > create one? > > > > A quick web search gave me a few pointers to attempts at this: > > The Google-foo is weak in this one. :) You missed the biggest one of all: Too true. One of the little known secrets of working with linux is that the web is generally the best way to learn things - not the source code. This is messing with my head ;-) but at least I'm getting much better at finding things then when I started. I am, however, still only an egg (at searching). > The Linux Test Project: http://ltp.sourceforge.net/ > > Enjoy. If this doesn't address your needs, feel free to contribute to it > until it does. :) This looks great. Thank you. And quite seriously, I suspect that test development is a great way to learn - doubly so if you then turn around and fix the bugs your tests uncover. And I've never yet seen a project where the tests weren't suffering from bitrot or worse, so there's sure to be work to be done. -- Arlie