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Date:      Mon, 14 Sep 2020 19:41:48 -0700
From:      Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To:        Teran McKinney <sega01@go-beyond.org>
Cc:        Lawrence Greening <lg49152@outlook.com>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Developers' Handbook: Chapter on testing
Message-ID:  <68F3C3B3-C3E6-4089-A4BF-1D5FD542FF33@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200914185159.GA25758@daemon>
References:  <DM6PR04MB54847A47689C03D86619C3E5B2230@DM6PR04MB5484.namprd04.prod.outlook.com> <20200914185159.GA25758@daemon>

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> On Sep 14, 2020, at 11:51 AM, Teran McKinney <sega01@go-beyond.org> =
wrote:

=E2=80=A6

> Hi Lawrence,
>=20
> I personally like this idea a lot. I guess it might be a bit too
> late for 12.2-RELEASE but maybe could land in time for 13.0-RELEASE?
>=20
> I also wonder if there could be a single burn-in style command to
> run all of the tests (after making sure the kyua package is installed)
> once a box is installed. Or maybe an installer option to run the
> tests on first boot. I think though that some are not compatible
> with all of the security options, so may be some conflicts there.
>=20
> One angle I'm curious about is vulnerability-based testing, where
> a vulnerability comes out and a version of the exploit becomes a
> test case that can be ran. Not sure how much that is used with
> FreeBSD though or how relevant it is, just thought I'd mention it.

=E2=80=9Cmake checkworld=E2=80=9D accomplishes that if you have access =
to a source tree.
HTH,
-Enji=



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