[nycbug-talk] Testing Criteria...was:Lab environment

[Pete Wright]

Isaac Levy wrote:

> On May 19, 2004, at 10:54 PM, G.Rosamond wrote:
>
>>> So I'll keep volunteered if some folks get my back on this stuff... <g>
>>
>>
>> I think the parameters need to be elaborated on the list, and then we 
>> can worry about the setups.
>
>
> Agreed-
>
> To re-state some of my generalizing in my response to Sunny, this is 
> the kind of thing I'm looking for out of this:
>
> - Sanity of setup and administration across various architectures
> - Network Verbosity vs. ease of use
> - Implimentation Sanity for different architectures, (i.e. perhaps, 
> for example, the native SMB implementation on a given platform sucks, 
> while it's awesome on a different platform)
> - General End User Experience (i.e. start a server runing one of the 
> services, and test several laptops using the service with different OS's)
> - General NAS Use Experiences
> - Resilience to Network Failure (ohh- nfs can make FUN for client 
> machines on various platforms :)
>
>
yea ike i think we are going down the right track here....this is what i 
was thinking about, which looks pretty much in line which were you are 
going.

first steps (in my opinion)
1)Which Operating Environments are we going to target:
       ->BSD(Free, Open, Net??)
       ->Gnu/Linux  (RedHat AS, SuSE Ent., Debian??)
       ->Darwin x86
       ->client side?  i guess OS X...
2)What network services are we going to test out:
       ->NFS
       ->AFP
       ->SMB
3)What methology are we going to use to test performace:
       ->"time" a dd
       ->benchmark utility v. custum scripts?
4)What is our hypothesis....i think if we can agree on an initial target 
that might help us get things in focus

I'm just throwing stuff out here right now, please don't mistake it for 
trolling or anything like that ;)

-p


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