[U-Boot] [PATCH V2 1/7] test/py: Implement pytest infrastructure

[Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>]

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 <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
>> ---
>
> 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?