Re: Are there kernel testing suites out there? We need them.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 4 Jul 1999 19:04:10 +0100 (BST)


> That works, but adding a mechanized regression test would
> be painless, and might give us earlier warnings if and when
> a few bad things (like ext2 fs corruption) creep back into

Automatic regression tests very rarely help. Most of the bugs that
get into a shipping kernel now are ones I can't reproduce even given a
description let alone find randomly

> corporations love. Red Hat, for instance, might well feel
> inclined to set up a mechanized regression test to give
> it a little added certainty that it's not about to ship a lemon.

Guess which turns up lemons best, the automated testing or the beta program.

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