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Linux doesn't even have consistent testing let alone the kind of tooling or will that Google does.
by staticassertion 5y ago
Linux doesn't even have consistent testing let alone the kind of tooling or will that Google does.
- colin_mccabe 5y agoThe Linux kernel developers have pretty good tooling for refactoring. For example, they have Coccinelle and Sparse. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccinelle_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccinelle_(software) 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse
- marcan_42 5y agoLinux definitely has testing. Some helpful person added our repo base to the kernel-test-robot list, and now I regularly get e-mails when something I'm working on in some random WIP branch broke the build on some other architecture (often in COMPILE_TEST mode), or some other random driver. Didn't even have to do anything myself. It's great for avoiding "this broke the build on $obscure_config" issues.