[U-Boot-Users] [RFC PATCH] Add u-boot command regression tests.

[Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 03:09:35PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> in message <474ACEEC.1080801@ge.com> you wrote:
> > 
> > I've used tk/tcl/expect and am not wild about them.  The older scripting 
> > languages are so.... 70s. ;-)  I haven't used python much, but I've come 
> > to like it a lot, kind of a rational perl. :-/
> 
> I think I know what you mean.

Same here, we are through all these iterations as well:

- we've written a test suite in python with xml specs (oo design, but
  very complex in the end, without the advantages we expected from
  an oo language)

- expect/tcl based test suite; causes brain cancer because of tcl

Now we do the u-boot tests/scripting with the tcl/expect stuff and all
other Linux test suites in normal shell scripts, remote-controlled via
ssh.

While the latter one has finally turned out to be a good way to write
test cases, we think about adding something like a dbus module to
u-boot-v2, which would make it possible to do real and well defined RPC
between a host and u-boot.

rsc
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