Re: [Xen-devel] Does Xen project have test suites for testing xc/xl/hypercall and so on?

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen@xxxxxxxxx>]

There is some very minimal functionality in Raisin for testing, which Stefano 
is working on. See 
https://blog.xenproject.org/2015/06/28/project-raisin-raise-xen/
Lars

> On 10 Aug 2015, at 13:18, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 07/08/15 09:47, Jinjian (Ken) wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>   I'm looking into xen's test suites now, and encounter some problems.
>>   Does xen have unit tests that can be executed by xen contributors to
>> validate their code-commits before sending a patch to xen-devel?
>>   In xen-4.5.1(and its upstream), there are sevral test cases in the
>> 'tests' directory, but these are much like tools, rather than test
>> cases at my view. For example, it obtains physical address by
>> hypercall and write relevant MSR in mce-test, but it didn't tell us
>> whether the address obtained was correct? and is the register written
>> successfully? There seems to have no method or expected results to
>> check them.
>>   If it was unit test, it is obviously not enough for xen. Are there
>> any more test methods to ensure the accuracy and stability of xen?
> 
> There is basically nothing in the way of unit tests which I am aware
> of.  We rely on code review and functional testing primarily.
> 
> I have some plans to introduce some functional tests from a guests
> perspective.  I hope to have these ready in the 4.7 timeframe, but there
> is nothing similar which I am aware of.
> 
> ~Andrew
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