On Thursday, August 25, 2011 04:56:39 PM Mike Frysinger wrote:
On Thursday, August 25, 2011 09:56:02 Andreas Bießmann wrote:
Am 25.08.2011 14:58, schrieb Simon Glass:
Summary: I am quite keen on improving the test infrastructure in U-Boot. I would like to have a test suite that can run in a minute or two on a Linux PC and test all non-platform code.
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To get around this I propose that we create a new ‘native’ architecture. We write code in ‘arch/native’ which can run under Linux. Since all the non-platform code will happily run under this new ‘architecture’, we can then write tests which run quickly under x86 Linux (or another Linux for that matter). This U-Boot 'architecture' should build natively on any 32/64-bit Linux machine since it just uses standard Linux system calls. Calls to Linux would be entirely within this arch/native subdirectory.
why don't use some unit testing framework like cunit, or ceedling (which can do HW mocks easily)?
these testing frameworks wont make any difference to what Simon is proposing. he is focusing on getting u-boot to build & run on your desktop machine. after that is done, we can talk about the actual tests and harnesses (although anything that requires ruby should immediately be disqualified imo :P). -mike
Definitelly agree with the RUBY part.