Regression testing

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 03:22:55AM -0400, CAI Qian wrote:
> > your ideas for regression tests.  Tests should be simple pass/fail
> > checks.  Tests against specific modules are allowed and encouraged.
> >  For
> > users testing where they module is not loaded, the test will simply
> > be
> > skipped.  Destructive testing is possible, though it will not be
> > included in the standard test run (a user should know and explicitly
> > sign up for a risk of data loss).  Please take a look and add your
> > ideas: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelRegressionTests
> I am actually interesting in this efforts since my group is doing kernel
> testing for a similar enterprise product. The natural thing to think is
> to adopt tests that we used there for Fedora where possible. Does that
> align with the community expectation here?

If you have tests that can be split out into easily run, stand-alone
test cases, then yes!  As you can see from the wiki page, we're somewhat
lacking for testcase ideas at the moment.

josh