Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] ptest-runner 2.0

["Aníbal Limón" <anibal.limon@linux.intel.com>]

Hi again Tudor,

Comments below,

	alimon



On 01/06/2016 09:46 AM, Aníbal Limón wrote:
> Hi Todor,
> 
> Comments below,
> 	alimon
> 
> 
> On 01/05/2016 06:13 PM, Tudor Florea wrote:
>> Hi Anibal,
>> Please see my comments inline.
>> Regards,
>>   Tudor.
>>
>> On 04/01/2016 20:29, Aníbal Limón wrote:
>>> The whole set is sent to two ML for reviewing purposes the first
>>> two patches are for oe-core and the last one for poky.
>>>
>>> The first two commits (oe-core) adds a new ptest-runner written in
>>> python the sh one is conserved to use in tiny systems.
>>>
>>> What's new in ptest runner:
>>>
>>> - Monitor/timeout stdout, stderr of the test suite to avoid block
>>> indefinetly.
>> This is definitely something useful.
>>> - Add option for change ptest root directory. - Add option for list
>>> available tests. - Add option for only run certain tests.
>>>
>>> The last commit (meta-yocto) sets ptest-runner to 1.0 in poky-tiny
>>> systems due to python dependency.
>> I think adding python dependency is a shift in a wrong direction for
>> for ptest-runner. The assumption that most embedded devices (tiny or
>> not) have python might not be correct.
>> The alternative of using the old version of ptest-runner only
>> complicate things.
>> I do think this kind of work is really useful but this should be done
>> into a testing framework that runs outside of the DUT.
> 
> The original problem is the current sh ptest-runner blocks indefinitely
> when a package ptest blocks (we don't control this), now python-ptest is
> blocking the ptest-runner, see [1]. The way to solve this is adding
> timeout in some place.
> 
> I know that bash support timeout option but this option works over the
> whole process making us to define timeouts too big or per machine/device
> also tiny systems mainly don't use bash. That's the reason for i decide
> to write python version of ptest-runner that applies a timeout over the
> output of the program give us better control/granularity over the
> running ptest.
> 
> 
> If you now other way to solve the problem please tell us.

I was thinking and one possible solution for this will be implement in C
the ptest-runner with the same features of python version, any comment?


> 
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8021
> 
> 
>>>
>>> The changes are available in the git repository at:
>>>
>>> git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib alimon/ptest-runner 
>>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=alimon/ptest-runner
>>>
>>>  Aníbal Limón (3): ptest-runner: Add version 2.0 re-implementation
>>> in python. ptest-runner: Add a recipe for install ptest-runner
>>> 2.0. conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf: Add default install of
>>> ptest-runner 1.0
>>>
>>> meta-yocto/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf              |   4 + 
>>> .../ptest-runner/files/ptest-runner_2.0.py         | 162
>>> +++++++++++++++++++++ .../ptest-runner/ptest-runner_2.0.bb
>>> |  27 ++++ 3 files changed, 193 insertions(+) create mode 100755
>>> meta/recipes-support/ptest-runner/files/ptest-runner_2.0.py create
>>> mode 100644 meta/recipes-support/ptest-runner/ptest-runner_2.0.bb
>>>