Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora Core 5

[Jim Cornette]

Ben Liblit wrote:
> Jim Cornette wrote:
>> Is this similar to what the Fedora Automated Test Suite [...] aims to
>> accomplish?
> 
> Both share the goal of making software suck less.  :-)  The key 
> difference is that the Fedora Automated Test Suite uses an explicit, 
> fixed, human-designed battery of tests.  CBI treats regular daily usage 
> as the "test suite", where any run that ends in failure (e.g. crash) is 
> taken as an example of a failed test.
> 
> These are complementary approaches, of course.  A well-designed 
> automated test suite is extremely valuable but can be hard to create. 
> CBI offers a different view of things, with less developer steering and 
> more focus on ordinary day-to-day usage.
> 

Thanks for explaining the difference between the two approaches.

Jim


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