From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 26 14:52:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2900714CBA for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 14:52:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id XAA32164; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:27:11 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA18183; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 20:43:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199908261843.UAA18183@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Looking for good QA tests... In-Reply-To: <199908261826.OAA00692@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> from Brian McGovern at "Aug 26, 1999 2:26:26 pm" To: bmcgover@cisco.com (Brian McGovern) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 20:43:26 +0200 (CEST) Cc: mark@grondar.za, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Brian McGovern wrote ... > >> Mmmm... No. _I_ (read: Not Cisco as a whole) am looking for tests that will > >> help locate bugs pre-release copies of the OS so that there is still time for > >> others to debug the code before Jordan cuts the release. Its more of a > >> "lets help the project by coordinating testing" thing.... > > > >A regression test to make sure that the OS is not broken before you > >inflict it on your colleagues/engineers? > > > >M > > Still too small a scope. How about "A regression test to make sure that the OS > is not broken before Jordan inflicts it on the world" ? A bunch of years ago we used the AT&T SVVS and the X/Open VSX testsuite to check on our SysV (!) system. Both code sets run a *lot* of tests but are A. non-BSD and B. non open source. Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message