Testing

[Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

I'd like to open some discussion about testing. I honestly haven't given that
much thought to big picture testing but I can describe what I'm doing to
btbridged to at least have something. I'm sure everyone has ideas as to which
direction the testing should be going and what we should be doing and this is
the conversation I would like to start.

At the moment it is almost impossible to test btbridged, short of actually
booting a real openbmc and making the host to something and through observation
try to see that all went well there really isn't a way of knowing if changes
work.

Joel kindly added a .travis.yml (travis-ci.org can automate) file to the
project to at least have compile checks, which is a great start. I'm currently
expanding on it so include a 'fake' bt-host and a trivial ipmi client. I don't
expect these tests to get too fancy but I do hope they'll be able to catch
broken commits. Future direction might be to have everything done in qemu so
that the 'fake' environment is closer to the real thing, doing so in qemu would
also allow us to test the bt-host driver in linux.

Cyril