Re: [Xen-devel] Call to write tests for osstest

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/08/13 20:40, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 05:01:01PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> > As release coordinator, and therefore de-facto
> > tracker-of-bugs-and-regressions, it seems to me that one of the
> > shortcomings in our current development mode is a lack of good
> > regression testing for many of the less common, but still very
> > important features of Xen; things like S3, driver domains, nested
> > virt, and so on.
> >
> > We do have a regression-testing push gate for the xen trees, written
> > by Ian Jackson, called osstest, with a lot of great functionality,
> > including a test scheduler, an automatic Baysean bisector, and so on.
> > Apart from more hardware, it is mainly lacking a more complete set of
> > tests.
> >
> > The Xen Project team here at Citrix agreed with me, and have decided
> > during the 4.4 timeframe to take on the task of adding some important
> > functional tests to osstest; our list is below.  We'd love for you to
> > join us.
> >
> > I will be tracking the implementation of the tests as part of the
> > regular 4.4 release updates.  I encourage people to join us by
> > thinking about a particular feature or bit of functionality that is
> > not yet tested by osstest, which you would like to see implemented in
> > the 4.4 timeframe, and responding to this e-mail, or one of the
> > regular development update e-mails asking it to be added.
> >
> > There is a description of osstest, along with a link to the source code, here:
> >
> > http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2013/02/02/xen-automatic-test-system-osstest/
> >
> > === Testing coverage ===
> >
> > * Network driver domains
> >   @George
> >
> > * new libxl w/ previous versions of xl
> >   @IanJ
> >
> > * Host S3 suspend
> >   @bguthro?
> >
> > * Default [example] XSM policy
> >   @Stefano to ask Daniel D
> >
> > * Xen on ARM
> >   # problem ATM: hardware
> >    @ianc
> >     emulator: @stefano to think about it
> >
> > * Storage driver domains
> >   @roger
> >
> > * HVM pci passthrough
> >   @anthony
> PV pci passthrough would be nice too.
>
> You can assign me to it, thought I would need some help in groking the
> osstest thingy. Maybe I will just copy what @anthony is doing.
I was thinking that would be a subset of the Network driver domains -- 
but I'll add it on here, and whoever gets to it first can do it. :-)
  -George

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