====== FreeBSD Release Engineering testing ======

===== What tests can we run during the FreeBSD Release Engineering process? =====

Here are some ideas:

Basic sanity checks:

  * install %%FreeBSD%% via installer to a few real and virtualized systems.
  * install HTTP ([[http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=nginx&stype=all&sektion=all|www/nginx]]), DNS services and survive basic traffic test;
  * successfully do a self-hosted 'make tinderbox' build;

Regression tests:
  * Run regression tests ([[http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/tools/regression/|<=9.x]], [[/TestSuite|10.x+]])
  * Check ABI against previous release ([[http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=abi-compliance-checker&stype=all&sektion=all|devel/abi-compliance-checker]]) -- important to make sure that there are no ABI surprises across release.

Additionally:
  * maybe one cluster system upgraded to the RC so we eat our own dogfood.  (Is this too crazy).
  * not sure but can we run the code on pointyhat/ports build cluster as well?

===== Acknowledgments =====
  * [[/XinLi]] provided a lot of the ideas on this page.