On 01/05/2016 03:58 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
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.
The hook scripts, relay control utilities, and udev rules I use for my own HW setup are published at https://github.com/swarren/uboot-test-hooks.
See README.md for more details!
It looks like I need to send a v4 of this, since I renamed a Python class but forgot to update all users of it. I didn't notice this, since I had the old module lying around as a *.pyc file, so the old name worked:-(
I also have a couple of minor fixes to roll in that make the scripts work better under a continuous integration environment (which doesn't have a controlling TTY set when the scripts run, which need a minor tweak to the Spawn code).