Hi, With a brief stop over in our fallout discussion, i thought of resuming discussing the other issues i came up.
As we have proposed in our OLS 2008 paper: http://ltp.sourceforge.net/documentation/technical_papers/ltp-ols-2008-paper.pdf, about LTP-robust, which will be a sub-project under LTP. As we are aware that we have huge limitation in improving code coverage in testing from the user space alone, as , we do not have sufficient test cases to test all the features that gets added in the kernel exponentially. The reason for that is well known, as, we do not have enough volunteers to write test cases and keep up testing the growing kernel. Hence, we envisaged the concept of creation of LTP-Robust, which basically will be a mechanism built in LTP to inject faults in the kernel. Mechanism of LTP-Robust should be able to do the following: 1) Inject Random faults inside the kernel, when individual test cases are being run by PAN, 2) PAN should be able to detect that test failures are because of dynamic faults injected, rather than actual faults in the kernel, 3) Once it is able to decipher this information, it should be able to restart that test once again with fault-less kernel. With the above testing methods, we believe we can improve the code coverage by also touching the error paths inside the kernel, which in normal circumstance will not be touched by the test code. In order to achieve the above mechanism, we need to change the PAN (ltp/pan/pan.c) code. I would like to know if any of you would be interested to work on this. Before that let us discuss and sort out things which you think needs attention before embarking. Regards-- Subrata ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Ltp-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list
