On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 03:13:24PM +0200, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> > With a proper test suite, we give him/her a basic test to check whether
> > the software is running as expected in his/her environment. Otherwise,
> > he doesn't have much chance other than waiting for productive problems.
> >
> I partially agree with this. However our test scripts are strictly
> regression testing and, of course, that is part of the development
> cycle, so end-users have no business dealing with this. For example, we
> cannot ask users to rebuild their kernel just to run theses tests (like
> scsi_debug module).
Exactly, reports from end users like "test XY failed" are completely
useless if the user is not able to debug the problem.
Anyway, more tests, and the tests improvements are wanted.
Karel
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