> One of the things I really miss in the open source kernel world > (coming from the commercial world) is the lack of test packages that > everyone automatically runs, just in case they broke > something. FreeBSD had nothing, AFAICT, with occassional painful > results. > > Does the linux kernel have any kind of regression test package? If > so, > where can I find it? If not, does anyone know of ongoing attempts to > create one? > > A quick web search gave me a few pointers to attempts at this: > > pdf about a regression test framework: > https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2007/ols2007v2-pages-285-296.pdf > > A project called crackerjack: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/crackerjack/ > > A paper from a 2008 linux symposium: > > http://ols.fedoraproject.org/OLS/Reprints-2008/babulal-reprint.pdf > That 2008 paper points to the LTP suite whose website implies they produced a May 2013 stable, so it's definitely ongoing. Here's the how to: http://ltp.sourceforge.net/documentation/how-to/ltp.php#_3 _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
