Re: [LTP] Contribution to LTP

[Praveen <pr...@pr...>]

Hi Subrata,

Thanks for the e-mail.

I have tried to build and execute the test suite for Intel. And also I am 
Trying to review and explore the different testcases in LTP testsuite. I
tried to look into various shell script test cases like ld,nm, mv, cp, etc
And some C test cases like kill, mtest, filesystem tests, etc.

I tried to look into LTP framework like PAN, runltp, manifest files(and its
structure), etc.

I just in a sort of confusion actually where to start with, I have
subscribed to ltp mailing lists and daily I receive lots of emails
describing about the changes that were made to LTP. I feel like lot of
the test cases are already existing...:) and ... Just feeling like where to 
start with ...:(

Thanks again for the email and for your genuine interest in my contribution.


Thanks, 
Praveen Kumar k
PrimeSoft IP Solutions Inc
 
Phone : 040-27762986/27762987 
Skype ID: kpraveen72
www.primesoftsolutionsinc.com 
-----Original Message-----
From: Subrata Modak [mailto:su...@li...] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 8:19 PM
To: Praveen
Cc: ltp...@li...; 'Nate Straz'; 'Nathan Straz'
Subject: RE: [LTP] Contribution to LTP

On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 11:06 +0530, Praveen wrote: 
> Hi Subrata,
> 
> Thanks for the information.
> 
> I am sure LTP will satisfy my enthusiasm to participate in Opensource.

Hi Praveen,

Have you found anything interesting to start contributing to ?

Regards--
Subrata

> First, I will start with registering to mailing list. 
> 
> Thanks again for the information.
> 
> Thanks, 
> Praveen Kumar k
> PrimeSoft IP Solutions Inc
> 
> Phone : 040-27762986/27762987 
> Skype ID: kpraveen72
> www.primesoftsolutionsinc.com 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Subrata Modak [mailto:su...@li...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 4:02 PM
> To: Praveen
> Cc: ltp...@li...; Nate Straz; Nathan Straz
> Subject: Re: [LTP] Contribution to LTP
> 
> Hi Praveen,
> 
> On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 13:43 +0530, Praveen wrote: 
> > Hi,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I am a C/Shell scripting Developer. I would like to
> > contribute/participate in LTP.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Please let me know, if I have any opportunity to work with LTP.
> 
> You have all the opportunity at your disposal to contribute to LTP. In
> fact, we need lots of volunteers to contribute to LTP. As, beginner, the
> first thing to do is just watch over the mailing list to find out how
> people work. And then there are lots of things in store for you:
> (And, off course, first subscribe to this list and this is available on
> subscription basis, which is free:
> http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=3382),
> 
> 1) Pick up some area in kernel for which tests do not exist in LTP (Of
> course this area should be of your interest). Try to write small tests
> for them and submit to LTP. It would be better if you track
> http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges for the changes and start with a
> latest stable kernel release,
> 
> 2) Execute the existing LTP tests on all the machines available to you,
> and see if you can hit a LTP/Kernel bug. If it is an LTP issue(s), send
> the corresponding patch to the mailing list for review,
> 
> 3) Make the LTP provision system more better, so that we can be more
> efficient/effective in running these tests. You can also work towards
> making it more automated.
> 
> The present LTP provisioning engine PAN has lots of drawbacks and it is
> old. This needs to be updated, or, replaced with something better.
> Sometime back Nathan Straz posted some comments on it:
> 
> http://fedorahosted.org/collie/
> http://marc.info/?t=122540445800003&r=1&w=2,
> 
> I need somebody, who can do a feasibility analysis of the advantages of
> PAN over collie, and show the fruits of migration from PAN to COLLIE. A
> workable version of the patch would also be welcome. The work would be
> little tough as PAN has stabilized and we would be resisting any changes
> which introduces bug(s) in our existing provisioning environment,
> 
> 4) Another important aspect would be to improve documentation for LTP.
> You can start with by reading individual test cases, understand the code
> (you will be assisted with the minimal existent description, so, do not
> worry), refer to man pages, google, and improve upon the test case(s)
> description. You are free to start from where ever you like.
> 
> You are welcome to LTP and i would hope your enthusiasm does not die
> down soon ;-)
> 
> Regards--
> Subrata
> 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Praveen Kumar k
> > 
> > PrimeSoft IP Solutions Inc 
> > 
> > Phone: 040-27762986/27762987 
> > 
> > Skype ID: kpraveen72
> > 
> > www.primesoftsolutionsinc.com 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 
> >
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