Re: kernelci.org transitioning to functional testing

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 12:13:24PM +0100, Guillaume Tucker wrote:
> As kernelci.org is expanding its functional testing
> capabilities, the concept of boot testing is now being
> deprecated.
> 
> Next Monday 18th May, the web dashboard on https://kernelci.org
> will be updated to primarily show functional test results
> rather than boot results.  The Boots tab will still be
> available until 5th June to ease the transition.
> 
> The new equivalent to boot testing is the *baseline* test suite
> which also runs sanity checks using dmesg and bootrr[1].
> 
> Boot email reports will eventually be replaced with baseline
> reports.  For those of you already familiar with the test email
> reports, they will be simplified to only show regressions with
> links to the dashboard for all the details.
> 
> Some functional tests are already being run by kernelci.org,
> results have only been shared by email so far but they will
> become visible on the web dashboard next week.  In particular:
> v4l2-compliance, i-g-t for DRM/KMS and Panfrost,
> suspend/resume...
> 
> And of course, a lot of functional test suites are in the
> process of being added: kselftest, KUnit, LTP, xfstests,
> extended i-g-t coverage and many more.
> 
> The detailed schedule is available on a GitHub issue[2].

Very cool stuff, thanks so much to everyone involved for making this
happen, it's really helpful.

greg k-h