Re: [PATCH] fstest: CrashMonkey tests ported to xfstest

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On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 1:35 PM Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> How about creating a group "regress", and we can move them into
> tests/regress for better categorization, for regression tests?

"regress" group seems good, we'll send out a patch with that.

> And for tests that attempt find new problems, we already have a group
> "fuzzers"; and perhaps there should be a some standard guieline for
> how long a single invocation of a fuzz test should run before
> quitting.  I'd say something in the 5 to 15 minute range?  People can
> always run the fuzz test multiple times, and if the fuzz test can save
> test between runs, it should matter that it's broken up into multiple
> test invocations.

CrashMonkey doesn't do random tests for every invocation, so its
behavior is a bit different from a fuzzer. But we can definitely
modify CrashMonkey to randomly pick workloads in the target state
space and run for a pre-defined amount of time.



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