[Qemu-devel] Suggestion for testing framework

[Balazs Attila-Mihaly \(Cd-MaN\)]

Hello all

It seems that there is agreement that some sort of automated testing is "a good 
thing" ;-). I'll have some free time in the next couple of days and plan on 
throwing something like this together on a spare box. I was thinking along the 
lines:

- several qemu images (one with Debian, one with Windows XP - I can get a free 
student license for it, etc)
- a script does a checkout of the trunk, checks if the version number is 
different from the last checkout (to avoid spamming the list :-))
- the script introduces the source in each VM, starts the VM and lets the 
different compilers available in the VM (like gcc 3.3, 3.4, mingw) compile the 
source
- if the compile fails, it collects the error logs
- if the compile succeeds, performance and functionality tests are run with the 
resulting binary - the is the most nebulous part for the moment for me - if I 
recall Fabrice said that compiling something inside a VM is a good performance 
test...
- results are sumitted to the list - if you are ok with that, I wouldn't want 
to spam the list

Please comment if you find the testing methodology good and what performance 
and functionality test should the process include...

Best regards.



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