“Testing has always been a critical part of IT and certainly has
become a fundamental component of Linux adoption. One of the most
critical core pieces of Linux testing got a significant upgrade
this week, courtesy of the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL), with
version 3.0.1 of the Scalable Test Platform (STP).“Written in Perl and licensed under the GPL, STP is an
enterprise-grade test harness used by the OSDL for Linux kernel
testing. It provides a set of test suites that allow for
code-change validation in the Linux kernel, as well quantifies
stability and automatically tracks performance…”