[U-Boot] [PATCH V2 1/7] test/py: Implement pytest infrastructure

[Stephen Warren]

On 12/19/2015 03:24 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> On 2 December 2015 at 15:18, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> In the future, I hope to publish (out-of-tree) the hook scripts, relay
>> control utilities, and udev rules I will use for my own HW setup.
>>
>> See README.md for more details!

> I think it would be worth adding a test that checks for the banner and
> the prompt, so we know that other test failures are not due to this
> problem.

test_000_version.py already does this. It should always be the first 
test run, hence its odd filename.