On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 10:23:06PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 07/10/2016 09:03 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > 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. :-)

I'm definitely interested in this discussion, it's something I've been
actively pushing on at work.

> Making it easier to implement such tests won't get such tests executed.
> I think we should also discuss how to implement more formal testing
> of release candidates, and/or how to improve test coverage.

Indeed, I think both are very important to getting progress on testing.
It's much easier to get people to write tests and fix issues they
identify if there's evidence that they're stable people care about the
results, but equally it's much easier to convince people to pay
attention to tests where the tests are actually there.  Bootstrapping is
going to need to push on all these things simultaneously until we've got
something sufficiently established.