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!
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Tested-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> #v3
