From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K3eP9-0008GQ-6o for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:50:55 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K3eP6-0008Bh-61 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:50:53 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33078 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K3eP6-0008BU-1L for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:50:52 -0400 Received: from smtp.syd.people.net.au ([218.214.225.98]:43434) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K3eP5-0006oh-4m for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:50:51 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 07:50:42 +1000 From: Erik de Castro Lopo Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggestion for testing framework Message-Id: <20080604075042.aff7c055.mle+tools@mega-nerd.com> In-Reply-To: <767386.58386.qm@web57006.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <767386.58386.qm@web57006.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: "Balazs Attila-Mihaly (Cd-MaN)" Balazs Attila-Mihaly (Cd-MaN) wrote: > Hello all > > It seems that there is agreement that some sort of automated > testing is "a good thing" ;-). I am a huge fan of testing and think that qemu developers and users would both benefit from more automated testing. > - several qemu images (one with Debian, one with Windows XP - I > can get a free student license for it, etc) This is testing of the final product. Especially for something as complex as qemu, final product testing is difficult. Wherever possible units should be tested in isolation. Debugging test failures of unit tests are also far easier than debugging problems in a whole qemu VM. However, if you do pursue your original plan, it would be really nice if either WinXP 64bit or Vista64 could be added to this list. Cheers, Erik -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures." -- Alan Perlis