Linux Kernel Gets Fully Automated Test 159
An anonymous reader writes "The Linux Kernel is now getting automatically tested within 15 minutes of a new version being released, across a variety of hardware and the results are being published for all to see. Martin Bligh
announced this yesterday, running on top of IBM's internal test automation system. Maybe this will enable the kernel developers to keep up with the 2.6 kernel's rapid pace of change. Looks like it caught one new problem with last night's build already ..."
ARM Linux has something similar (Score:5, Informative)
ARM Linux has had something similar in Kautobuild [simtec.co.uk] for some time.
Although the testing and building is limited to the ARM platform.
The site also has a whos who thats worh looking at ;-)
Re:Question: (Score:3, Informative)
Related projects at OSDL (Score:2, Informative)
http://osdl.org/projects/26lnxstblztn/results/ [osdl.org]
http://developer.osdl.org/cherry/compile/ [osdl.org]
Re:Within 15 Minutes? WTF (Score:5, Informative)
So it's fairly well tied in already
News Flash (Score:5, Informative)
That said, pushing tests upstream is a great idea. Just not revolutionary or anything.
Re:How much testing? (Score:5, Informative)
in yellow, rather than green or red. I have a few of those in the internal tests, but not the external set.
This is only the tip of the iceberg as to what can be done. We're already running LTP, etc internally, and several other tests. Some have licensing restrictions on results release (SPEC)
Re:Within 15 Minutes? WTF (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Presumably... (Score:5, Informative)
Going from 90% working to 99.9% working is frigging hard. I had all this working 3-6 months ago, but the results weren't good enough quality to be published. Several people internally put a massive amount of work into improving the quality and stability of the harness.
Re:through the looking glass... (Score:4, Informative)
Plus, there's a separate development grid where we test new test-harness code before it's put onto the
production grid.
Re:Maybe... (Score:5, Informative)
The numbers are there, it's just a question of drawing graphs, etc. I have some for kernbench already, but I'm not finished automating them. If anyone wants to email me code to generate them from the directory structure published there, feel free
Re:Why has it taken so long? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Within 15 Minutes? WTF (Score:0, Informative)