Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggestion for testing framework

[Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>]

Paul Brook wrote:
> We were talking about a tester that does periodic long running tests off svn 
> trunk, and reports the results. Individual developers are not directly 
> involved.
>
>   

Even that is tremendously useful.  Once you identify a regression, it is 
easy to bisect and pinpoint the offending patch, which also locates the 
author.


> You're talking about some sort of testsuite that can be distributed to all 
> developers and reasonably run before every patch is submitted, which is a 
> significantly different beast.
>
> I'm pretty certain the proposed tests would not be suitable for routine use by 
> the majority of developers are part of normal developers. They will be too 
> large, probably take a long time to run, and contain proprietary software 
> that can't be redistributed.
>   

There's no need to start at the screen while the test is running.  
Proprietary software can be worked around by having the user provide a 
CD image and licensing keys in a configuration file.


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