Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755258AbXFUIoS (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:44:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753334AbXFUIoK (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:44:10 -0400 Received: from ausmtp04.au.ibm.com ([202.81.18.152]:36407 "EHLO ausmtp04.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751326AbXFUIoI (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:44:08 -0400 Message-ID: <467A3A48.6050809@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:13:52 +0530 From: Balbir Singh Reply-To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com Organization: IBM User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michal Piotrowski CC: LKML , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Maciej Rutecki , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Jarek Poplawski , Mariusz Kozlowski , Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux Kernel =?windows-1252?Q?Tester=92s_Guide_?= =?windows-1252?Q?v0=2E3-rc1?= References: <4676E707.8020109@googlemail.com> <661de9470706210031s36396c31xff5428ff60042073@mail.gmail.com> <6bffcb0e0706210130h227dcd62n52f34e45dfd8e818@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6bffcb0e0706210130h227dcd62n52f34e45dfd8e818@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1041 Lines: 34 Michal Piotrowski wrote: > Hi Balbir, > > On 21/06/07, Balbir Singh wrote: >> Wonderful! Are there any plans to start using the fault injection >> framework >> to catch more defects? > > There are plans for the second part called "debugging techniques", but > I really don't know when I'll start writing this. > > In fact I don't even know if it will be useful for testers. IMHO it is > for developers not for testers. > > Regards, > Michal > I thought so too, but being able to randomly fail allocations on a system might expose the system error handling and recovery capabilities. It'll also be interesting to see if testing is catching bugs, that tools (such as sparse) could have caught. -- Warm Regards, Balbir Singh Linux Technology Center IBM, ISTL - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/