[GSOC - 2026] - Improving Automated test coverage and System Documentation

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Hi everyone,

I’ve completed my proposal regarding automating the test and expanding coverage in Haiku’s codebase. This proposal aims to add infrastructure to enhance the testing coverage, mainly in the filesystem(BFS Driver) testing and UI testing area (Interface kit).

Feedback and new ideas are welcome for further refinement in the proposal.
Proposal

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Have a good voyage with this period of GSoC and your testing improvements -

There are more peoples here who run several test against Haiku - POSIX compatibility, clang compliance, just to name a few - so it will be welcomed well !.. :cowboy_hat_face:

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Hii guys,

Whenever you have time, Can you look at my proposal. @KapiX @PulkoMandy @nephele

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Can you provide the proposal as a .odt or .pdf? Looking at it in google docs does not work correctly for me. Also keep in mind that I am not a GSOC mentor and have no clue how that stuff works, so I will only be able to comment on some technical stuff :slight_smile:

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Hii Nephele,

Here is the PDF version of the Proposal.

Yeah, that’s okay :slightly_smiling_face: . The Technical feedback and refinement of Proposal is much more Important.

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Hello everyone,

To simplify and automate filesystem benchmarking on Haiku, I’ve created the fs-test framework.

My current benchmarking workflow is:

  1. Boot into a Haiku system using a test image (an .iso).

  2. Inside that running Haiku instance, install the bonnie++ benchmarking tool.

  3. Create a virtual disk image to test the target filesystem and mount it.

  4. Run the fs-test script against the mounted disk image, which automatically executes the bonnie++ benchmark and safely stores the results.

This makes comparing multiple hardware setups or filesystems (like BFS or ext2) incredibly easy. I’m thinking of adding all the generic tests to the filesystems inside this framework. Is this approach right? Here is the result of Benchmarking :

~/haiku/src/tests/add-ons/kernel/file_systems> ./fs-test --fs=bfs --test=benchmark --format=human /boot/home/mnt/
Filesystem: bfs
Mount path: /boot/home/mnt/

[TEST] benchmark
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# bonnie++ benchmark on /boot/home/mnt/ (bfs)
# bonnie++ -d /boot/home/mnt/ -s 1G -n 16 -u user -q
# Results: ./results/bfs_bonnie_20260318_194741.csv
# Version 2.00a       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Name:Size etc        /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
shredder         1G 1332k  99  176m  14 10.9m   5 2583k  71 12.5m   5  4573  63
Latency             15325us     513ms     373ms   14411us   16025us   22463us
Version 2.00a       ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
shredder            -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16 16384   5 +++++ +++ 16384   6 16384   6 +++++ +++ 16384   7
Latency              3895ms      90us    3388ms    2861ms     660us    4609ms
1.98,2.00a,shredder,1,1773863696,1G,,8192,5,1332,99,179974,14,11206,5,2583,71,12795,5,4573,63,16,,,,,737,5,+++++,+++,879,6,683,6,+++++,+++,641,7,15325us,513ms,373ms,14411us,16025us,22463us,3895ms,90us,3388ms,2861ms,660us,4609ms
ok 1 - benchmark
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[PASS] benchmark

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SUMMARY: 1 passed, 0 failed
Results: ./results
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