====== CIP Kernel Release Candidate Testing ======
There are a number of tests that are run automatically when new changes are pushed to the [[https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-kernel/linux-cip|linux-cip GitLab repository]] (either directly or through the mirror of the [[https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cip/linux-cip.git/|kernel.org]] repository).

Not all of the available tests are run though due to time constraints. For example, the LTP test suit can take up to 3 hours to run, depending on the number of available platforms.

Details on all test cases can be found on the [[civilinfrastructureplatform:ciptesting:centalisedtesting:cioverview#tests|Continuous Integration Testing Overview]] page.

A process has been created to allow the CIP Kernel maintainers to run through //all// of the tests before they make a new release.

All a developer needs to do to run through all supported tests is make a push to either the GitLab or kernel.org repository on a branch ending with either //linux-4.19.y-cip-rc//, //linux-4.4.y-cip-rc//, or //linux-rc//.

This will trigger a pipeline in GitLab that will build and test the Kernel configurations as defined in [[https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/linux-cip-pipelines|linux-cip-pipelines]].

See [[https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-kernel/linux-cip/pipelines/106643279|Pipeline #106643279]] for an example.