RE: tests for VM?

There isn't a canned test suite that can be automatically run other than the
system benchmarks; however, I am working on setting up a mechanism to allow
a full clean recompile/reconstruction of the image, which I plan on using as
the first big automatable VM test.  Then the idea is to add in the system
benchmarks for performance regression testing, and that will finally give us
a baseline set of regression tests that we can run automatically.

Just running the programming environment and doing lots of resizing of the
HTML browser puts a lot of stress on the VM, but it isn't at all
deterministic.  But that is the best there is right now.
-Dave

 -----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Peter Golde
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 10:26 AM
To: 'Strongtalk-general'
Subject: tests for VM?


  Is there a set of tests for the VM that check it (or at least key parts)
for correct operation? I imagine it would be pretty easy to break something
in the compiler, decompiler, garbage collector, or some such without
realizing it. What do the VM developers use to check that they haven’t
broken anything with their changes and generally check the VM for
correctness?



  Peter


  

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