From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Warren Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 14:51:26 -0700 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH V2 1/7] test/py: Implement pytest infrastructure In-Reply-To: <565FE567.1070909@denx.de> References: <1449094708-14784-1-git-send-email-swarren@wwwdotorg.org> <565FE567.1070909@denx.de> Message-ID: <5665FF5E.2010502@wwwdotorg.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 12/02/2015 11:47 PM, Heiko Schocher wrote: > Hello Stephen, > > Am 02.12.2015 um 23:18 schrieb Stephen Warren: >> This tool aims to test U-Boot by executing U-Boot shell commands using >> the >> console interface. A single top-level script exists to execute or attach >> to the U-Boot console, run the entire script of tests against it, and >> summarize the results. Advantages of this approach are: >> >> - Testing is performed in the same way a user or script would interact >> with U-Boot; there can be no disconnect. >> - There is no need to write or embed test-related code into U-Boot >> itself. >> It is asserted that writing test-related code in Python is simpler and >> more flexible that writing it all in C. >> - It is reasonably simple to interact with U-Boot in this way. >> >> A few simple tests are provided as examples. Soon, we should convert as >> many as possible of the other tests in test/* and test/cmd_ut.c too. >> >> In the future, I hope to publish (out-of-tree) the hook scripts, relay >> control utilities, and udev rules I will use for my own HW setup. >> >> See README.md for more details! >> >> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren >> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren >> --- > > Nice work! > > I am working on another python approach, not only good for testing > u-boot, also works with linux, or other console based tests, see: > > [1] tbot > https://github.com/hsdenx/tbot That looks nice too. I assume the scope there is too large to aim at inclusion into the U-Boot source tree, since it also aims at Linux testing too?