[yocto] automated hardware testing

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Robert,

On Wednesday 09 July 2014 12:33:15 Robert Berger wrote:
> I just noticed this [1] and there are rumors that in the next release
> hardware testing will also work with yocto-autobuilder.
> 
> I do have a couple of boards deployer in my lab and build with
> autobuilder images for them.
> 
> The consoles of my boards are connected via conservers to ethernet and I
> can also remotely switch on/off power.
> 
> For the beagle bone white the setup is more complex in order to press
> the reset button remotely and turn on/off the power over the USB cable
> remotely.
> 
> My goal would be to build something with autobuilder, deploy to a board
> and run some tests.
> 
> Is this feasible with my current infrastructure?
> Can someone please guide me in the right directions.

Absolutely. As a starting point I'd recommend the following section of the
manual:

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#performing-automated-runtime-testing

Some of the capabilities in this area were added after 1.6, i.e. they are
only in master.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre