On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 17:45 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 20:43 +0900, Masatake YAMATO wrote: > > > Hi Masatake YAMATO, > > > > > > Are you still working to include more test cases in LTP? Thought of > > > pinging you as not heard from you long. > > > > Sorry to be late. My patch for fadvise64 system call is now in the > > Linus's main git tree. > > > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b5beb1caff4ce063e6e2dc13f23b80eeef4e9782 > > > > As far as I know, the new version of linux which includes my patch is not > > released yet. > > I'm waiting for it to do something next. > > > > I did what I could do on linux kernel side. With the kernel pulled > > from Linus's main git tree, my ltp test case about fadvise64 may > > work fine without modifying the test case. Do you think I can do > > That is good to know. > > > something more about the test case? If so, could you tell me the > > direction? > > Nothing particular about this test case alone. Since you are interested > to write other syscall test cases, why don´t you pick up some set of > syscall test cases (with reference from the Latest Kernel), which are > not there in LTP presently, and, which may be of interest to the domain > of testing you are doing. And write them in your spare time for LTP.
Hi Masatake, Any new thoughts in this above area ? > Another huge challenge facing LTP is to clean up and overhaul all the > existing testcases that are there in the tree for long. I am advocating > ideas like, Test Engineers, who do testing on particular domain, say > network, can pull up LTP Network test cases to: > > * See whether functionality testing is properly adhered to, if not, how > and where to close that GAP !! > * Is there any need to change the code to improve the stress testing the > testcase is doing ?? or do we need to add a new testcase(s) for doing a > separate stress, but, for the same functionality ?? > * Make the test case completely full proof to error/exception handling, > * Investigate & understand what the testcase is supposed to do, and > increase documentation content/comments on the same testcase, or, this above area ?? Regards-- Subrata > > > > So, if you feel you can contribute to any of these areas, it would be > great indeed. > Regards-- > Subrata > > > > > Masatake YAMATO ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Ltp-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list
