Vikentsi Lapa — How does software testing become software development?
1. How does software testing
become
software development?
Vikentsi Lapa for MLUG 2014
2. Some words about IOzone
● Filesystem benchmark
● Features
– ANSII C source
– Different I/O patterns
– Builds for: AIX, BSDI, HP-UX, IRIX, FreeBSD, Linux,
OpenBSD, NetBSD, OSFV3, OSFV4, OSFV5, SCO
OpenServer, Solaris, MAC OS X, Windows
(95/98/Me/NT/2K/XP)
● More info about it http://iozone.org/
3. BUG happens
● What to do and how to improve testing
process? How to fix it?
– Try to reproduce defect.
– Find community and communicate with developers
● iozone have only one active developer, so this was easy
to found out
● Response: I am busy with another activity...
– But he suggest what to do and how to fix that, so it
was easy to fix.
4. Summary
● Result:
– defect was fixed and I have new development
experience
● There are a lot of small nonprofit OSS projects
in the world
● You can help them even you are not developer
● In this way you not only helps projects but
build yours credibility (win-win)