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Date:      Thu, 17 Oct 2002 19:43:20 -0400
From:      David Kleiner <kleiner@panix.com>
To:        "Fischer, Oliver" <plexus@snafu.de>
Cc:        Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net>, FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: freebsd test matrix
Message-ID:  <20021017234320.GA1664@panix.com>
In-Reply-To: <3DAE6116.5080904@snafu.de>
References:  <20021017005151.T771-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> <3DAE6116.5080904@snafu.de>

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On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 09:04:54AM +0200, Fischer, Oliver wrote:
> Chris BeHanna wrote:
> >
> >    I'm currently doing QA on a (very) large software project, and all
> >of those things are important.  Some of the testing uses existing
> >industry test suites and benchmarking tools, and some of it (much of
> >it) is custom.  Being able to compile, install, and boot is just the
> >tip of the iceberg.
> >
> 
> I agree, it is only the top of it. I have an idea how to do this for a 
> lot of programms, but no one how to do it with the more system specific. 
> Does anyone know how commercial os vendors do it?
> 
> Bye
> 
> Oliver
> 
> 

As something I am involved with (not to mention any names) - and I don't know if 
any of it has been looked at in the open-source U*x world:

nightly build cycles with basic (short stress, basic api sanity, some standards
compliance)

bi-weekly - more involved api, abi, stress, standards

beta-candidates, release candidates and so on - even more longer-term test suites. 

As we, most likely, cannot use anything out of the Commercial World, all this has 
to be built from close to scratch.  I may be wrong here but it is a likelier scenario.

Ideas, anyone?

David




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