Dear all,

each arch, driver and app tested once would be enough I think. A matrix can
help to identify test-gaps. Double testing is nice and triple testing is
not of benefit any more.

The goal should be to have fast access to results with transparency. I fear
starting to maintain a useless monster ;)

Simon

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On Wed, Feb 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM Alan C. Assis <acas...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think we should test the most complete/complex boards from each arch. It
> will cover most of the issues that could after other boards.
>
> BR,
>
> Alan
>
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2025 at 4:23 AM raiden00pl <raiden0...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > As mentioned earlier, testing all boards is pointless, especially since
> the
> > project
> > has very limited resources. Choosing a few boards that will allow us to
> > test as many
> > things as possible is the most optimal approach.
> >
> > But first we should determine what things we want to test, not what
> boards.
> > Knowing what things we want to test, we can design test cases and
> possibly
> > use what is already available.
> >
> > But e-mail and github don't seem to me to be a good tool for
> brainstorming
> > and ideas. Maybe Confluence pages would be better? I haven't used
> > Confluence
> > for a few years, I just hope it's not as slow as it used to be :)
> >
> > I can create a Confluence page and describe my ideas about testing, I
> have
> > some
> > thoughts about NuttX testing written somewhere in my private notes.
> Others
> > can do
> > the same.
> >
> > Email can be good for decision making and maybe gathering more feedback
> > from
> > the community, but it's a shitty tool for more complex work. Or I'm too
> > young
> > to use it comfortably :P
> >
> > wt., 4 lut 2025 o 12:03 Tomek CEDRO <to...@cedro.info> napisał(a):
> >
> > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM Luchian Mihai <
> luchiann.mi...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > > First thing, I'm fairly new to nuttx so I might be off subject but
> here
> > > is
> > > > my hot take on this subject.
> > >
> > > Welcome and have fun Mihai! :-)
> > >
> > >
> > > > NuttX is offering support for a lot of boards, more than what DRUNX
> > > should
> > > > require.
> > > >
> > > > Eg. stm32f3 family, offering support for all the boards would benefit
> > the
> > > > boards more than the NuttX codebase.
> > > > These boards share 80% of the code but each in its own files, so most
> > > > differences are due to lack of backporting.
> > > >
> > > > My suggestion is to take a single board for each mcu family as
> > mandatory
> > > > NuttX support, others as optional.
> > > > I'm not saying to drop support, or offer less support for those, just
> > to
> > > > treat the mandatory as higher prio.
> > > > For the moment we can choose what is mandatory, and at a later time,
> > when
> > > > DRUNX would be stable, move the optional ones to DRUNX repo (for
> > > example).
> > >
> > > The idea is that everyone can test what they have at hand and then
> > > gather the results, that should sum up to full board list one day :-)
> > > Also different people will use different build hosts, different
> > > compilers, etc, so even if the same board is tested in different build
> > > environment that can also reveal potential issues to be fixed :-)
> > >
> > > Yes, for sure we need at least one board from each family for start,
> > > then adding more boards, we all do release testing that way or
> > > another, by hand or scripted, we now have to find a way to make it
> > > distributed easy to setup fire-and-forget :-)
> > >
> > >
> > > > TLDR: I think less is more, less "official" support, more "official"
> > > > coverage.
> > >
> > > More means more. Less means less. Lets keep thing simple in this
> > > inverted world where word have no meaning anymore :D :D :D
> > >
> > > Its a small project based on voluntary work with zero financial
> > > support from big companies. We will define a testing architecture for
> > > sure, but for now its a fresh concept and each one of us try different
> > > area to create small building blocks that will give us the solution we
> > > need, one day, hopefully ;-)
> > >
> > > Please go ahead Mihai and try your boards, start with one that you
> > > know best, use PyTest to create build and runtime automation, create
> > > "selftest" board config that will run a script with `uname -a; help;
> > > ostest, coremark`, gather the logs, parse the results, see how
> > > nuttx-dashboard works based on gist, see what problems we have, see
> > > how can we solve them hands-on :-) Maybe there is something better
> > > than PyTest. Maybe there are other ways. You try it out and share the
> > > feedback :-)
> > >
> > > If this is too much, use smaller steps, think of it as automation tool
> > > for release testing on different boards :-)
> > >
> > > Thank you and take care :-)
> > > Tomek
> > >
> > > --
> > > CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
> > >
> >
>

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