Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Future goals for autotest and virtualization tests

[Anthony Liguori]

On 03/08/2012 09:46 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 08.03.2012 15:56, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> > > I particularly agreed with basically everything you said on that
> > > discussion regarding test simplification (I had just joined the
> > > team back then). To me, autotest has been focusing on QE-level,
> > > leaving the developer-level test requirements out. Now we're
> > > attacking this new front, and a lot of the requirements are
> > > indeed from that discussion.
> >
> > If you want to talk about this in terms of "requirements", my requirement is for
> > "developer-level" tests to live in qemu.git and be integrated into make check.
>
> Actually, I think make check should be something that runs _really_
> quickly. We'll probably want another make check-full or something that
> runs more extensive tests.

Yeah, my qtest series has a few make check variants that all run with different 
speeds.

> That's the reason why the patch I proposed earlier today runs only a few
> qemu-iotests cases during make check. The whole thing would already take
> too long for everyone to use it. If people run some quick sanity tests
> for all of qemu plus the full tests in the subsystem in which they're
> making changes, I think that would be the best we can realistically expect.

Yup, agreed.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Kevin