After I posted the URL in the comments on tonight's Slashdot article on "Making Software Suck Less", I thought I should incorporate some of the comments people had made about my article over the past few weeks: Using Test Suites to Validate the Linux Kernel http://linuxquality.sunsite.dk/articles/testsuites/index.html I knew I had a couple HTML errors in it, so I ran it through the W3C validation service until it came out 4.01-strict clean: http://validator.w3.org/ Try the validator on your own pages, it's pretty embarrassing what it can find. On an old page of mine I'd accidentally copied and pasted a whole repetition of the <body></body> tags and all the text in between at the end of the file - but it didn't show up in any browser. I added these tests: - PostgreSQL's regression tests - Mauve - VA Linux Cerberus - cpuburn - Lucifer the last three are hardware stress tests and should be used with caution, and probably not on a machine you would be concerned about setting on fire. There are a few more suites to be added that I need to dig out of my email. Fortuitously, while I was editing the new draft, a helpful fellow from IBM Israel named Michael Veksler wrote in with some suggestions for improvement of some really bad grammar errors I'd committed, and a suggestion that I add some comments about test coverage - making sure that all components of the kernel get tested by some test or other. I've taken his grammar suggestions but still need to write about the test coverage. I'm going to write on article on web application testing next. Besides discussing the W3C validation service, I'll also talk about load generators for web servers. A recent client of mine could have avoided hiring me at all if he'd gone to http://freshmeat.net and entered the word "stress" into the search box. Regards, Mike Crawford -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
