Re: [ECOS] state of the art for running tests

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>]

Patrick Doyle wrote:
> I am curious what the current state of the art for running tests is.  Do
> folks run them from a Windows environment, or has configtool v2 been
> upgraded to support that from Linux as well.

It has, although we've recently found some problems in this area which we 
are addressing.

>  In the absence of any
> pointers, I think I will write a script to fire off gdb for each test found
> in the tests tree.  If somebody else as already written such a script and is
> willing to share it, I would be grateful.

You can do a lot with a shell script, a .gdbinit, and if you're lucky and 
your platform supports it, a HAL_PLATFORM_RESET() call in cyg_test_exit. 
It's a bit of a hack, but if you want something better it requires a lot 
more effort so it's only really companies like (say :-)) eCosCentric who 
can do properly rigorous testing with collated test results, different 
configurations and automated 24x7 running, etc.

Jifl
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