Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Are there kernel testing suites out there? We need them. | Date | Sun, 4 Jul 1999 19:04:10 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> 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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