[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] kernel unit testing

[Kevin Hilman]

Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com> writes:

> On Monday 11 Jul 2016 13:24:25 Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> Trond Myklebust <trondmy at primarydata.com> writes:
>> > So, we might as well make this a formal proposal.
>> > 
>> > I’d like to propose that we have a discussion around how to make it
>> > easier to implement kernel unit tests. I’ve co-opted Dan as he has
>> > expressed both an interest and hands-on experience. :-)
>> 
>> Count me in.
>> 
>> I'm working on the kernelci.org project, where we're testing
>> mainline/next/stable-rc/stable etc. on real hardware (~200 unique boards
>> across ~30 unique SoC families: arm, arm64, x86.)
>> 
>> Right now, we're mainly doing basic boot tests, but are starting to run
>> kselftests on all these platforms as well.
>
> Would you be interested in running other test suites as well (for instance 
> http://git.ideasonboard.com/renesas/vsp-tests.git) ? If so we need to decide 
> on an interface for test suites to make it easy for you to integrate them in 
> your test farm.

Sure.  Running tests is the easy part.  It's parsing results and making
useful reports about regressions that involves a little more work.

Kevin