Regression testing

[CAI Qian]

Hello,

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Justin M. Forbes" <jforbes at redhat.com>
> To: kernel at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 11:05:22 PM
> Subject: Regression testing
> 
> As some of you have seen in our community meeting and minutes, we are
> working on actively testing the kernel builds.  The short version is
> a
> series of regression tests which reside in either the kernel git tree
> and can be run with 'make tests' or possibly a control script in a
> kernel-tests subpackage.  This will allow any user to run the
> regression
> tests against their running kernel on real hardware, and hopefully
> improve the test base considerably.  In addition we will have
> autotest
> hooked up to do this plus more extensive testing.  More details can
> be
> found at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelTestingInitiative
> 
> So here is the part where we really want to get community involved.
>  We
> have a wiki page created to list the regression tests that need to be
> written, and even sign up to write some if you are so inclined.  We
> need
> 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?

Regards,
CAI Qian
> 
> Thanks,
> Justin
> 
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