Hi Nathan, During the NuttX Workshop a friend (Thiago Costa Paiva) suggested about the idea of creating a FPGA solution to validate NuttX hardware, but his idea didn't take place.
I think using a software simulator is a good starting point, but some features need to be validated on real hardware. BR, Alan On 5/18/20, Nathan Hartman <hartman.nat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Moving this discussion from a 2020/05/17 thread titled: > "Backporting Fixes [was: heap malloc when executing binary/elf file]" > > The discussion about automated testing begins at [1] where Greg > asks whether we want to invest in an exhaustive functional test suite > to qualify releases. > > I suggested that we could consider several tiers of testing: > >> * The lowest tier could be coding standard and build testing. (Which >> we're already doing.) >> >> * The next tier could be static analysis of the code. >> >> There are free analyzers, as well as cloud based commercial ones >> that are free for open source projects to use. >> >> * The next tier could be an automated test suite that runs in a >> simulator. >> >> This would be accessible to the greatest numbers of developers and >> contributors, because there's nothing to buy. >> >> * The highest tier could be testing on a reference hardware board. >> >> We could begin by perfecting the lowest tier and then gradually >> climbing up the ladder by adding static analysis, etc. > > Renaming this thread so that we can continue that discussion... > > Cheers, > Nathan > > [1] > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0a4db514b8ccfb5d0fde3e8bb2654a1fc27dc39501145ee4487a0719%40%3Cdev.nuttx.apache.org%3E >
