On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 04:58:43PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > 2014-02-26 14:11 GMT+01:00 Colin Walters <walt...@verbum.org>: > > > During making glib changes you should run glib unit tests to have some > > basic level of assurance you didn't introduce regressions or unwanted > > changes. > > > > The *very first* test I run is "does the OS still boot"? That's called > > "smoketest" for me, and it only takes a few minutes. > > > > That seems to be optimizing for bugs that break the boot, when bugs that > occur in less-frequently used parts of the system are far more common; a > lot of software is not used, or not critical, in the boot path.
But bugs which break the boot prevent you from testing everything else. Libguestfs currently is the de-facto test of bugs that break the boot, and TBH it's not a job I enjoy having. It happens too often in Rawhide, and a simple test (in %check or elsewhere) could fix it. I even wrote a simple tool to perform the test: http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/qemu-sanity-check/ Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
