Re: [OE-core] [RFC v2 0/2] Add bblock helper script

Alexander Kanavin
2023-07-27T14:28:50Z

Sure; if you can write a script and show it here, we can figure out
where to place the test officially.

Alex

On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 at 16:15, Julien Stephan <jstephan@baylibre.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 10:36:28AM +0200, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Jul 2023 at 10:25, Julien Stephan <jstephan@baylibre.com> wrote:
> > > > Thanks for working on this. Should we think about how this could be tested?
> > > Do you mean we should consider addind self test for bblock? or you want
> > > to discuss about acceptance criteria for bblock?
> >
> > Hello,
> > I mean mostly about what should be tested. How can we verify that the
> > script does what it's supposed to, in an automated way, so it won't
> > silently break as new changes to bitbake/oe-core are added? What
> > should such a test contain?
> > The specific form of tests (whether it's selftest, or maybe a part of
> > SDK testing, or something else) is secondary.
> >
> > Alex
>
> Hi Alex,
>
> I just send the v3 with a lot of improvements!
>
> Here is what I do during my dev:
> - lock a recipe's task for a given arch (qemux86-64 vs qemuarm)
> - modify the given task
> - check that for the selected arch, task is locked (but not for other arch)
>
> Maybe we need to be more formal with that?
>
> I would be happy to provide a test script if needed.
>
> Cheers
> Julien