Regression testing

[CAI Qian]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Josh Boyer" <jwboyer at redhat.com>
> To: "CAI Qian" <caiqian at redhat.com>
> Cc: kernel at lists.fedoraproject.org, "Justin M. Forbes" <jforbes at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2012 8:55:33 PM
> Subject: Re: Regression testing
> 
> 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.
OK, will kick of some ideas there. Do you have any guideline on how to
implement those tests? Will it be written using AutoQA or Beaker? Where
to submit and commit those tests? I am also CC'ing Adam here to see what's
his opinion.

Regards,
CAI Qian
> 
> josh
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