Re: [PATCH v2 12/17] kunit: tool: add Python wrappers for running KUnit tests

Brendan Higgins
2019-05-02T18:08:23Z

On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 4:02 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 04:01:21PM -0700, Brendan Higgins wrote:
> > From: Felix Guo <felixguoxiuping@gmail.com>
> >
> > The ultimate goal is to create minimal isolated test binaries; in the
> > meantime we are using UML to provide the infrastructure to run tests, so
> > define an abstract way to configure and run tests that allow us to
> > change the context in which tests are built without affecting the user.
> > This also makes pretty and dynamic error reporting, and a lot of other
> > nice features easier.
> >
> > kunit_config.py:
> > - parse .config and Kconfig files.
> >
> > kunit_kernel.py: provides helper functions to:
> > - configure the kernel using kunitconfig.
> > - build the kernel with the appropriate configuration.
> > - provide function to invoke the kernel and stream the output back.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Felix Guo <felixguoxiuping@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
>
> Ah, here's probably my answer to my previous logging format question,
> right? What's the chance that these wrappers output stuff in a standard
> format that test-framework-tools can already parse? :)

It should be pretty easy to do. I had some patches that pack up the
results into a serialized format for a presubmit service; it should be
pretty straightforward to take the same logic and just change the
output format.

Cheers