People are working on testing for various parts of QEMU. I started this thread to gather an update on the state of testing and see where we still need help.
I'm not sure yet if we should propose Google Summer of Code projects to help with the testing infrastructure. Perhaps working on libqtest support for PCI, USB, virtio, etc would be a cool project. Buildbot ------------ The buildbot performs nightly builds and "make check". Test coverage is still minimal but it's a starting point where we can add more tests that will run every day. Block -------- tests/qemu-iotests/ contains 49 tests for the block layer. These tests mostly cover image format features like backing files, snapshots, resize, and basic I/O verify tests. The test suite has a few areas for improvement: 1. aio is not well-supported. We need to be able to control the order in which asynchronous requests complete in order to test all possible code paths. This issue also means the current aio tests are not deterministic and can fail randomly due to reordered output. 2. make check-block is not run by the buildbot. We should do so to get nightly coverage of basic qcow2 tests. I will send a buildbot config patch to fix this. Net --- No tests! How are things looking with device emulation, migration, monitor, char, etc? Stefan
