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
> 
> 
> 
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