linux-kernel - Re: Linux Testing Microconference at LPC

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Date:   Wed, 15 May 2019 20:36:49 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     shuah <shuah@...nel.org>
Cc:     Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@...il.com>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>,
        Tim Bird <tbird20d@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        "Carpenter,Dan" <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>, willy@...radead.org,
        gustavo.padovan@...labora.co.uk,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>, knut.omang@...cle.com
Subject: Re: Linux Testing Microconference at LPC

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 04:44:19PM -0600, shuah wrote:
>Hi Sasha and Dhaval,
>
>On 4/11/19 11:37 AM, Dhaval Giani wrote:
>>Hi Folks,
>>
>>This is a call for participation for the Linux Testing microconference
>>at LPC this year.
>>
>>For those who were at LPC last year, as the closing panel mentioned,
>>testing is probably the next big push needed to improve quality. From
>>getting more selftests in, to regression testing to ensure we don't
>>break realtime as more of PREEMPT_RT comes in, to more stable distros,
>>we need more testing around the kernel.
>>
>>We have talked about different efforts around testing, such as fuzzing
>>(using syzkaller and trinity), automating fuzzing with syzbot, 0day
>>testing, test frameworks such as ktests, smatch to find bugs in the
>>past. We want to push this discussion further this year and are
>>interested in hearing from you what you want to talk about, and where
>>kernel testing needs to go next.
>>
>>Please let us know what topics you believe should be a part of the
>>micro conference this year.
>>
>>Thanks!
>>Sasha and Dhaval
>>
>
>A talk on KUnit from Brendan Higgins will be good addition to this
>Micro-conference. I am cc'ing Brendan on this thread.
>
>Please consider adding it.

FWIW, the topic of unit tests is already on the schedule. There seems to
be two different sub-topics here (kunit vs KTF) so there's a good
discussion to be had here on many levels.

--
Thanks,
Sasha