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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
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On Mon, 24 March 2003 15:06:26 -0800, Craig Thomas wrote:
> 
> OSDL has a set of stress tests that are run on new kernels as they
> become available.  However, the architectures tested are limited
> (compared with the variety that can be found in the world).  There 
> are enough testers in the community to collectively test for 
> correctness of the kernel.  Test suites such as LTP and LSB help
> in this regard.
> 
> On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 09:01, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 
> > One of the best things people can do is just use it. OSDL and others run
> > stress tests but often its users configurations that find bugs not
> > stress and coverage runs.

And another thing I have found to be good at finding bugs is a sick
mind. If you intend to crash a system and do just about anything a
normal user wouldn't, you will stress all the code paths that are
usually not tested.

J?rn

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