[Automated-testing] Recommended way for QA of own packages

[Otavio Salvador]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Markus Boos <boosakaboss at gmail.com> wrote:
> We’re using the Yocto Build system as a platform for our Products.
>
> To go one step towards continuous deliver, I’m asking myself, what is the best way, together with the yocto build system QA environment,  to run unit test’s and their coverage.
> Shall we
> - add single packages (one with untitests, one with coverage flags) and run them on the target
> or
> - add everything behind the ptest feature
>
> Consider that we are using an ARM based machine (same family as on the beagle board), we have a different bootloader (u-boot) and some packages are strongly coupled to the hardware, those packages need the hardware to run unit tests.
>
> Does anyone has a recommendation or plan?

The coverage flags would require you to rebuild the package for the
test. Maybe a pcov package type could be add?

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