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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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