Re: [Xen-devel] xenbits "official" repo for XTF (was Re: [PATCH 0/2] xtf: add launcher (+1 bugfix)

[George Dunlap <dunlapg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Roger Pau Monne writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] xtf: add launcher (+1 
> bugfix)"):
>> This series contains a bugfix for the build infrastructure and a basic
>> launcher for XTF. Patches can also be found in the following git repo:
>>
>> git://xenbits.xen.org/people/royger/xen-test-framework.git launcher_v1
>
> IMO we should give this thing a proper repo in the root of the xenbits
> git namespace.
>
> I'm slightly concerned that `xen-test-framework' is a bit vague.  It
> sounds like a CI system (of which we already have at least three ...),
> rather than a collection of tests based on tiny VMs, each designed to
> make specific demands of the host environment.
>
> Andrew, do you have other naming ideas ?  I don't object to "xtf" but
> that's just an acronym, and the expansion is confusing.  I think
> qualifying the somehow might be useful.
>
> Others: do you have opinions ?  Is my concern ill-founded ?

I agree -- if someone had heard about osstest, but had forgotten the
name, they might well search for "xen test framework" and end up
rather frustrated.

Since the purpose of these tests is to verify very specific bits of
functionality (not unlike processor verification actually), maybe
something with some form of "verify" in the name?  Xen verification
framework / xvf?

 -George

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