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From:   Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Date:   Wed, 17 Oct 2018 14:09:06 -0700
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Subject: Re: [RFC v1 06/31] arch: um: enabled running kunit from User Mode Linux
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 10:52 AM <Tim.Bird@sony.com> wrote:
> >
> > It might be of interest to the automated testing mailing list too ? (Tim?)
>
>  I think this is interesting to groups doing automated testing of the kernel
> (including myself) as another set of tests to run.  Right now I don't see it
> as having any special attributes related to automation.  But I could be wrong.

Pardon my ignorance, but by automated testing you mean a CI server
with presubmits, nightlys, and things of the sort?

If that's the case, KUnit could be helpful because of the low resource
cost in running them and the speed at which they run. There are some
other features we would like to add which would help with that goal as
well like test isolation. We actually have a presubmit server
internally for running KUnit tests that can usually respond to patches
with test results within a couple minutes. Would something like that
be interesting?