Is there anybody who is willing to discuss on this more and then take forward to it´s logical conclusion.
Regards-- Subrata On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 17:03 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote: > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
