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

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 12/28/2011 05:01 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> I'd say that running a ping test is a weak version of kvm-autotest's
> system tests.  Running a synthetic test that pokes values into memory
> and mmio and sees a packet coming out is a unit test (the latter can in
> fact be executed without a guest at all, just a table driving calls to
> the memory and irq APIs).
>

Consider
  98d23704138e0
  7b4252e83f6f7d
  f7e80adf3cc4
  c16ada980f43
  4abf12f4ea8

(found by looking for 'fix' in the commit log and filtering out the
commits that don't support my case)

how can you reject such patches on the grounds that they're not
accompanied by unit tests? only by making it easy to add tests for
them.  I think it would be hard/impossible to test them with
linux-as-a-guest, since they fix edge cases that linux doesn't invoke. 
But by having our own driver (often just using qmp to poke at memory),
we can easily generate the sequence that triggers the error.

We'd probably need a library to support setting up a pci device's BARs,
but that's easy with qmp/python integration.  You can even poke a small
executable into memory and execute it directly, if you really need guest
cpu interaction.

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