Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 19:41:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, jesus.monroy@usa.net Subject: Re: BUDS Coming to you soon. Message-ID: <199905132341.TAA44841@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <19990513231838.6626.qmail@nwcst067.netaddress.usa.net>
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> o........ Deep Recursion Testing[1] I believe you mean Regression testing here. At least, the description you provided fits the definition of Regression testing. > o........ Permuntation Compilation of the GENERIC Kernel[2] Uh.. I believe you mean "Permutation", right? But, if you simply count the number of options, devices and controllers in the LINT config on 3.1 you get 313. Let's simplify this and pretend they are all either yes-or-no options. That makes for a *lot* (2 to the 313) of different kernels which will take quite some time to compile... (longer than your lifetime?) Perhaps a more realistic testing paradigm should be employed? Also, I suggest that -hackers isn't appropriate for this... - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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