linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux Kernel Tester’s Guide v0.3-rc1

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Date:	Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:13:52 +0530
From:	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@...il.com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl>,
	Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@...land.pl>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux Kernel Tester’s Guide v0.3-rc1

Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> Hi Balbir,
> 
> On 21/06/07, Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> 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
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