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poky/meta/lib/oeqa/core
Andrew Oppelt 413f327baa testexport: support for executing tests over serial
Uses TEST_SERIALCONTROL_CMD to open a serial connection to the target
and execute commands. This is a drop in replacement for the ssh target,
fully supporting the same API. Supported with testexport.

To use, set the following in local.conf:
- TEST_TARGET to "serial"
- TEST_SERIALCONTROL_CMD to a shell command or script which connects to
  the serial console of the target and forwards that connection to
  standard input/output.
- TEST_SERIALCONTROL_EXTRA_ARGS (optional) any parameters that must be
  passed to the serial control command.
- TEST_SERIALCONTROL_PS1 (optional) A regex string representing an empty
  prompt on the target terminal. Example: "root@target:.*# ". This is
  used to find an empty shell after each command is run. This field is
  optional and will default to "root@{MACHINE}:.*# " if no other value is
  given.
- TEST_SERIALCONTROL_CONNECT_TIMEOUT (optional) Specifies the timeout in
  seconds for the initial connection to the target. Defaults to 10 if no
  other value is given.

The serial target does have some additional limitations over the ssh
target.
1. Only supports one "run" command at a time. If two threads attempt to
   call "run", one will block until it finishes. This is a limitation of
   the serial link, since two connections cannot be opened at once.
2. For file transfer, the target needs a shell and the base32 program.
   The file transfer implementation was chosen to be as generic as
   possible, so it could support as many targets as possible.
3. Transferring files is significantly slower. On a 115200 baud serial
   connection, the fastest observed speed was 30kbps. This is due to
   overhead in the implementation due to decisions documented in #2
   above.

(From OE-Core rev: d817b27d73d29ba2beffa2e0a4e31a14dbe0f1bf)

Signed-off-by: Andrew Oppelt <andrew.j.oppelt@boeing.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Weber <matthew.l.weber3@boeing.com>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Wolber <chuck.wolber@boeing.com>

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Tested with core-image-sato on real hardware. TEST_SERIALCONTROL_CMD
was set to a bash script which connected with telnet to the target.

Additionally tested with QEMU by setting TEST_SERIALCONTROL_CMD to
"ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no root@192.168.7.2". This imitates
a serial connection to the QEMU instance.

Steps:
1) Set the following in local.conf:
  - IMAGE_CLASSES += "testexport"
  - TEST_TARGET = "serial"
  - TEST_SERIALCONTROL_CMD="ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no root@192.168.7.2"
2) Build an image
  - bitbake core-image-sato
3) Run the test export
  - bitbake -c testexport core-image-sato
4) Run the image in qemu
  - runqemu nographic core-image-sato
5) Navigate to the test export directory
6) Run the exported tests with target-type set to serial
 - ./oe-test runtime --test-data-file ./data/testdata.json --packages-manifest ./data/manifest --debug --target-type serial

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2024-09-01 12:28:10 +01:00
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2017-01-23 12:05:18 +00:00

= OEQA (v2) Framework =

== Introduction ==

This is version 2 of the OEQA framework. Base clases are located in the 'oeqa/core' directory and subsequent components must extend from these.

The main design consideration was to implement the needed functionality on top of the Python unittest framework. To achieve this goal, the following modules are used:

* oeqa/core/runner.py: Provides OETestResult and OETestRunner base
  classes extending the unittest class. These classes support exporting
  results to different formats; currently RAW and XML support exist.

* oeqa/core/loader.py: Provides OETestLoader extending the unittest class.
  It also features a unified implementation of decorator support and
  filtering test cases.

* oeqa/core/case.py: Provides OETestCase base class extending
  unittest.TestCase and provides access to the Test data (td), Test context
  and Logger functionality.

* oeqa/core/decorator: Provides OETestDecorator, a new class to implement
  decorators for Test cases.

* oeqa/core/context: Provides OETestContext, a high-level API for
  loadTests and runTests of certain Test component and
  OETestContextExecutor a base class to enable oe-test to discover/use
  the Test component.

Also, a new 'oe-test' runner is located under 'scripts', allowing scans for components that supports OETestContextExecutor (see below).

== Terminology ==

* Test component: The area of testing in the Project, for example: runtime, SDK, eSDK, selftest.

* Test data: Data associated with the Test component. Currently we use bitbake datastore as
  a Test data input.

* Test context: A context of what tests needs to be run and how to do it; this additionally
  provides access to the Test data and could have custom methods and/or attrs.

== oe-test ==

The new tool, oe-test, has the ability to scan the code base for test components and provide a unified way to run test cases. Internally it scans folders inside oeqa module in order to find specific classes that implement a test component.

== Usage ==

Executing the example test component

$ source oe-init-build-env
$ oe-test core

Getting help

$ oe-test -h

== Creating new Test Component ==

Adding a new test component the developer needs to extend OETestContext/OETestContextExecutor (from context.py) and OETestCase (from case.py)

== Selftesting the framework ==

Run all tests:

$ PATH=$PATH:../../ python3 -m unittest discover -s tests

Run some test:

$ cd tests/
$ ./test_data.py