Developers' Handbook: Chapter on testing

[Enji Cooper]

> On Sep 14, 2020, at 11:51 AM, Teran McKinney <sega01 at go-beyond.org> wrote:

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> Hi Lawrence,
> 
> I personally like this idea a lot. I guess it might be a bit too
> late for 12.2-RELEASE but maybe could land in time for 13.0-RELEASE?
> 
> I also wonder if there could be a single burn-in style command to
> run all of the tests (after making sure the kyua package is installed)
> once a box is installed. Or maybe an installer option to run the
> tests on first boot. I think though that some are not compatible
> with all of the security options, so may be some conflicts there.
> 
> One angle I'm curious about is vulnerability-based testing, where
> a vulnerability comes out and a version of the exploit becomes a
> test case that can be ran. Not sure how much that is used with
> FreeBSD though or how relevant it is, just thought I'd mention it.

“make checkworld” accomplishes that if you have access to a source tree.
HTH,
-Enji