Photos: Red Hat boss seeks The Truth

Red Hat manager of quality engineering Jay Turner followed Szulik onstage to discuss a new testing project the company is preparing to launch, which it claims will give customers the ability to create more robust implementations of the open source specialist's software in their companies.

The project does not have a name as yet but Turner revealed that the testing project will build on existing tools such as the company's dogtail graphical test utility. "Today I am here to announce that we are submitting a new testing project to the Fedora board to establish standards around open source testing and give us all the confidence we need," he said.

Turner said the project's overall aim was for the community to find ways to improve testing in a collaborative way. "The final point is that we want to develop process together. We know we are good at this, but know a lot of you are good too."