Scalable Test Platform is a test harness for building reproducible test environment, executing tests and collecting results.

Imagine if we could produce summary charts showing the improvement for each release of gcc, linux kernel, etc. for posting onto Linux Weekly News that help all of the Linux users tell when upgrading one of those components will net them big benefits. We think it can be done with STP, and are going to try to put together a team to achieve this goal. Check our website to learn more.

The purpose of this tool is to automate installation, configuration and set-up test systems, run the tests and collect the data in an easily accessible and configurable format. Open Source Development Labs use this for linux kernel testing .

Patch Lifecycle Manager (PLM) is a Source Manager which provides a central point for tracking the lifecycle of patches against a source tree. Regardless of the RCS type system used by the developer to track development of the patch (CVS, Subversion, BitKeeper, or by hand...)

Scalable Test Platform uses this for easy access to application, tool and kernel stacks. (OSDL's PLM) Here is the latest manual.