Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] qemu-test: a set of tests scripts for QEMU

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 12/29/2011 07:49 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 29 December 2011 17:26, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 12/29/2011 07:22 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> My guess is that a serious attempt at tests covering all the
> >> functionality of a device is probably approximately doubling
> >> the effort required for a device model, incidentally. A
> >> half-hearted attempt probably doesn't buy you much over
> >> automating "boot the guest OS and prod its driver".
> >
> > Agreed.
>
> The next obvious question is: are we going to make a serious attempt?
> (For instance, in a hypothetical tests-required world, would we
> tell those nice folks from Samsung "no you can't land your
> Exynos patches unless you write 9000+ lines of test cases" ?

Yes.

> I suspect that if we set the bar for new board and device models
> that high then the result will largely be that we don't in fact
> get new board or device models.)

If just doubles the effort, I disagree.

Even if that turns out to be the case, it's fine.  Better to have a few
good devices than dozens of bad ones.

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