Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora Core 5

[Ben Liblit]

Jim Cornette wrote:
> Is this similar to what the Fedora Automated Test Suite [...] aims to
> accomplish?

Both share the goal of making software suck less.  :-)  The key 
difference is that the Fedora Automated Test Suite uses an explicit, 
fixed, human-designed battery of tests.  CBI treats regular daily usage 
as the "test suite", where any run that ends in failure (e.g. crash) is 
taken as an example of a failed test.

These are complementary approaches, of course.  A well-designed 
automated test suite is extremely valuable but can be hard to create. 
CBI offers a different view of things, with less developer steering and 
more focus on ordinary day-to-day usage.

> Having automated programs to diagnose problems does sound like it will 
> aid in getting more information back to improve Linux program versions.

Agreed!