Hi Darren,

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 16:30 -0700, Darren Hart wrote: 
> The current ltp/testcases/realtime tests belong to one of func, perf, or 
> stress.  While strict pass/fail criteria make sense for functional tests 
> (did the tasks wake up in priority order?), the others use "arbitrary" 
> values and compare those against the whatever is being measured (wakeup 
> latency, etc.) and then determine pass/fail.  Ideally the tests 
> themselves would not determine the pass/fail criteria, and would instead 
> simply report on their measurements since the criteria will vary in 
> every use-case based on requirements, workload, hardware, etc.
> 
> I'd like to propose an approach where the tests only report their 
> measured values (with the exception of the func/* tests which will 
> maintain their pass/fail criteria).  Users should be able to populate a 
> criteria.conf file that specified the criteria of each test.  The 
> results could then be parsed, compared against the results, and a 
> pass/fail determined from there.  I suspect it would be best for the .c 
> tests to just report the numbers and the statistics in a common format 
> and rely on python parser scripts to read the config file and determine 
> pass/fail from there.
> 
> I'd like users thoughts on this approach before we jump in and start 
> changing things (as this is a fairly invasive change).

This is indeed a good approach. Should we also ask the RT-USERS, who
might be interested to comment on this ?

Regards--
Subrata

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