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From: philip@whiuk.com (Philip Whitehouse)
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 19:16:22 +0100
Subject: Kernel Testing (was Re: Is the Kernel Janitors project still
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> One of the things I really miss in the open source kernel world
> (coming from the commercial world) is the lack of test packages that
> everyone automatically runs, just in case they broke
> something. FreeBSD had nothing, AFAICT, with occassional painful
> results.
>
> 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:
>
> pdf about a regression test framework:
>   https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2007/ols2007v2-pages-285-296.pdf
>
> A project called crackerjack:
>   http://sourceforge.net/projects/crackerjack/
>
> A paper from a 2008 linux symposium:
>
>    http://ols.fedoraproject.org/OLS/Reprints-2008/babulal-reprint.pdf
>

That 2008 paper points to the LTP suite whose website implies they 
produced a May 2013 stable, so it's definitely ongoing.

Here's the how to:

http://ltp.sourceforge.net/documentation/how-to/ltp.php#_3