Re: [Xen-devel] How to test my patch before I post it to public?

[wang zhihao <accept.acm@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi George:

I don't have a patch now, but may have one in future. : P

Ok, I will try to make a patch and then ask this question : )

Regards
Wang zhihao

在 2012-4-30，下午10:19， George Dunlap 写道：

> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 3:12 PM, wang zhihao <accept.acm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi George:
>> 
>>  Thanks for your guides, But I don't know what "combination" means.  Could
>> you tell me more about it?
> 
> I can't really give you an example without an example to work with.
> :-)  What does your patch do?
> 
> -George
> 
>> 
>> Best Regards
>> Wang Zhihao
>> 
>> 在 2012-4-30，下午5:16， George Dunlap 写道：
>> 
>> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 4:21 PM, wang zhihao <accept.acm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi , All
>> 
>> 
>> I 'm a green hand and interested in open source development. I have a
>> general question "How to test my patch before I post it to public?" Hope you
>> guys give me some suggestions. : )
>> 
>> 
>> Firstly, I can re-compile the code, to assure no syntax error. However,I
>> don't know how to test my patch's function is right or not. Some software
>> requires unit test for each function. Is there anything similar in xen
>> project?
>> 
>> 
>> There is no unit testing for Xen.  What you need to test really
>> depends on what your patch is doing.  The main goal is to exercise the
>> code you've just added or changed: try to put it in different
>> combinations to make sure that it works as you expect.  Try to break
>> it, really. :-)
>> 
>> If you're just tweaking a simple option in the xl config file, then
>> you need to test a few different combinations to make sure that all
>> the reasonable combinations work.  If you're changing the locks in the
>> memory management code in the hypervisor, then you need to run a bunch
>> of benchmarks that exercise that code, probably for several hours.
>> 
>> If you post your patch to the list (with an appropriate description)
>> we may be able to give you some suggestions.
>> 
>> -George
>> 
>> 
>> 
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