Sep 5 – 7, 2025
Asia/Kolkata timezone

Linux Kernel Testing Frameworks

Sep 6, 2025, 4:50 PM
20m
Room 2: Breakout

Room 2: Breakout

Talk (20 min) Development/Coding

Speaker

Shuah Khan
The Linux Foundation

Description

We can all agree that it is important to test the kernel. There are a number of tools for code coverage, dynamic and static analysis to choose from to test the kernel. Linux kernel provides two testing frameworks to write and run tests. A majority of kernel tests are written using these two frameworks. Having a rich set of tools and frameworks is great. However it can be challenging to know which one to chose.

In this talk, Shuah will give an overview of tools and frameworks and their differences, and how to use them to achieve the your kernel testing objectives and goals.

Session author's bio

Shuah Khan is a Kernel Maintainer & Linux Fellow at The Linux Foundation. She is an experienced Linux Kernel developer, maintainer, and contributor. She authored, A Beginner’s Guide to Linux Kernel Development (LFD103) training course. She designed and leads the Mentorship program aimed at increasing diversity in open source and providing equitable access to learning resources.

She serves on the Linux kernel Code of Conduct committee and the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board.

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