Perhaps this has been discussed before, but is there any interest in
coordinating the maintenance of a set of Linux Quality Assurance test suites?
Some tests that come to mind are:
* The torture tests Linus mentions
* Posix Conformant Test Suite (PCTS) (at least the syscall parts)
* crashme
* Various benchmarks
* Other specialized tests kernel folks have already developed
The ad hoc kernel testing that gets done is great, but having a formal
collection of tests would have several advantages:
* If they were made easy to use, more people would use them
* Bugs could be found more quickly on more hardware combinations
* Linux's "image" in the corporate world would improve (IMHO)
* The kernel would become even better than it is
Caldera would be willing to make available FTP and WWW space for such a
project.
Comments?
Ron
-- Ron Holt <ron@caldera.com> Caldera, Inc.