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

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi Kevin,

On Tuesday 02 Aug 2016 11:42:30 Kevin Hilman wrote:
> 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.

Which again calls for a common format for test invocation and test results. Is 
that something you've given a thought to already by any chance ?

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart