Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux Kernel Tester’s Guide v0.3-rc1

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Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> Hi Balbir,
> 
> On 21/06/07, Balbir Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Wonderful! Are there any plans to start using the fault injection
>> framework
>> to catch more defects?
> 
> There are plans for the second part called "debugging techniques", but
> I really don't know when I'll start writing this.
> 
> In fact I don't even know if it will be useful for testers. IMHO it is
> for developers not for testers.
> 
> Regards,
> Michal
> 

I thought so too, but being able to randomly fail allocations on a system
might expose the system error handling and recovery capabilities.

It'll also be interesting to see if testing is catching bugs, that tools
(such as sparse) could have caught.

-- 
	Warm Regards,
	Balbir Singh
	Linux Technology Center
	IBM, ISTL
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