Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggestion for testing framework

[Glauber Costa]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Paul Brook <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>> Balazs Attila-Mihaly (Cd-MaN) wrote:
>> > Hello all
>> >
>> > It seems that there is agreement that some sort of automated
>> > testing is "a good thing" ;-).
>>
>> I am a huge fan of testing and think that qemu developers and users
>> would both benefit from more automated testing.
>
> IMHO Automated testing by itself is pretty much worthless.
> The value comes from having someone look at the results, and actively fix
> problems as they are discovered. Once you've allocated resources to do this
> bugfixing setting up the testing is fairly trivial.

Not at all. A developer writing something new for qemu will have a way
to make sure his code works before submitting it upstream.
Right now, each one has to write its own testing, each time, which can
be failed in itself, and not do a full coverage.

So while it may not do much for existing code, it can certainly help
the quality of new code to improve.


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