Jordan: ktest: Automated Testing For Kernel Programmers

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Daniel Jordan looks at
ktest
on the Oracle Linux blog. “Where ktest is especially
useful, though, is in its ability to do these things for each patch in a
series, thereby freeing you from a significant amount of tedium. For your
chosen configs, the series will be cleanly bisectable and won’t trigger
upstream build bots with easily avoided errors and warnings
mid-series. (Those bots are nice for less common configs though.) Code
reviewers’ moods improve too because each patch will stand alone with all
the necessary code.