Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora Core 5
Ben Liblit
liblit at cs.wisc.edu
Mon Jun 26 18:29:52 UTC 2006
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!
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