[OpenAFS-devel] Testing (and a call for volunteers)

[Booker Bense]

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@hozed.org> wrote:
> What about launching a couple of VM's using kvm/qemu? (this is where I'm
> going at the moment)
>

In the buzzword compliant world[1], tools like vagrant are being used
to create exactly
this kind of testing.  See

https://github.com/opscode/test-kitchen

for some examples. Spinning up a "mini-cell" with a single command
would be a huge step
forward. But functional testing on the large scale isn't a substitute
for unit-testing. OpenAFS
needs both.

I'd argue that if we are going to make progress on the needed changes
to keep OpenAFS viable
unit tests are far more important.

- Booker C. Bense

[1]- As they say I've been "exploring my options" recently so I've
spent some time getting up to date
on the buzzwords.