BoF: Automated Testing and Board Farming - Chris Fiege, Pengutronix e.K.
Channel: The Linux Foundation
Date: 08/10/2022

BoF: Automated Testing and Board Farming - Chris Fiege, Pengutronix e.K.

Testing of software on real hardware is an important part of the development cycle. As there is no co-located automated testing event this year, we want to use this BoF to continue the exchange between the people involved in testing for Embedded Linux. Compared to the Kernel Testing & Dependability MC at Plumbers, the BoF will focus more on the practical side of running a board farm. We'll start with a quick summary of recent developments related to board farms, lab control frameworks, KernelCI and automated testing in general. Then, we can share (good or bad) experiences with different approaches and tools or just for discussion in general. Possible discussion topics for this BoF are: - control software (Lava, tbot, pdudaemon, labgrid, the board farm REST-API, ...) - board farm architectures - controller to board mapping (1:N vs. 1:1) - useful hardware tools - gaps in our tools - plans for the next year - possible areas for collaboration - … We'll be using a shared document to gather topics before and during the BoF and collect notes during the discussions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oxgzOvWu6vbC4SoJq6y-NbqhlnEED73ZeCp7hpSU7QU/edit?usp=sharing