Re: [Publicity] Blog post: OSSTest Standalone Mode Step by Step

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 25/09/13 21:58, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 02:17:03PM +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:34:04PM +0100, Lars Kurth wrote:
> > > Wei,
> > >
> > > thanks. I will leave it to others to comment. Would you be willing to put
> > > together a wiki page based on the post and post to xen-devel? I had a
> > Yes, sure.
> >
> > > conversation with IanC at LinuxCon about the lack of people using OSS Test.
> > > I believe the two main reasons for the lack of pick-up so far are:
> > > a) It is unclear how to build OSS Test into the dev routine (this post +
> > > wiki should address this)
> > I think it can address part of the problem, but not all of it. There're
> > still lots of details I'm not able to go into in a single post.
> >
> > The sole purpose of this post is to help people bootstrap using OSSTest.
> > Once they're en route they're pretty much on their own and everything
> > boils down to "read the source code".
> It does detract from the Xen RT which long-term ought to be used (IMHO).
>
> As it has a ton of features that can help in making Xen and Linux
> work fantasticly well  - and catch not only bootup/bug regressions
> but also performance regressions.
With due respect to Alex and the XenRT team for the work they've done, 
XenRT is not actually a public project yet.  Tossing a tarball over the 
wall is not making an open project.  And I haven't looked at it, but I 
suspect it's not in a shape ready to just be picked up and used by the 
average developer just yet.
The thinking here was:
* It may be 6 months to a yeas before XenRT is ready to replace osstest
* There is a small chance that the XenRT thing may not actually come about
* Work done and skills gained writing tests for osstest wouldn't be 
wasted -- having implemented tests in osstest should make it easier for 
people to implement the same test (or different tests) in XenRT.
So we were planning on continuing to develop osstest until XenRT was 
ready to take over, as the risk of doing so is low and the benefits are 
solid.
It occurs to me that for the osstest->XenRT transition, a first step 
would be to get XenRT running on the xenproject.org testbed. That will 
help shake out all the random assumptions about the environment that may 
have ended up baked into the code.  We should probably try to touch base 
with the XenRT team about that, after IanJ comes back from holiday.
 -George

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