Hi everyone,
in today's developer meeting the discussion passed by the topic of HIL
testing once again, this time in the context of the upcoming re-modeling
of the I2C interface. Some weeks ago I had an idea for a simple HIL
setup for automatically testing perihp/i2c drivers, and I promised to
share it (although it is in very very early state). So here it is.
So the basic idea is to connect the I2C pins of the 'board-under-test'
(i2c master for now) to a 2nd board (lets call it 'test peer'), running
a fully controllable software i2c slave implementation. On the
device-under-test we simply run the 'tests/periph_i2c' app, that lets us
control the I2C master using shell commands (init/read/write incl
parameters). On the 'test peer' we run a programmable soft i2c client,
that offers shell commands expressing expectations, e.g. "expect 4 byter
[abcd] written to addr 0x23".
Now for creating an automated I2C test-suite, I imagine something
similar to our existing pyexpect scripts (testrunner), just with the
added capability of handling two clients. So the test script could look
something like this (mostly pseudocode...):
`PORT=/dev/ttyACM0 TESTPEER=/dev/ttyACM1 make hil-test`
triggers:
```python
...
def testfunc(testie, peer):
...
# tell the 'test peer' to expect something to be written to addr
0x23 and respond with a NACK
peer.sendline("expect_addr 0x23")
# write a random byte the addr 0x23
testie.sendline("w 0x23 a")
# the 'test peer' will tell if it sees the expected address
peer.expect("[SUCCESS]")
# the 'device-under-test' should recognize the NACK
testie.expect("error: no device with that address found on bus")
# test writing (expect 4 bytes [affe] written to address 0x42)
peer.sendline("expect_write 0x42 a f f e")
testie.sendline("w 0x42 a f f e")
peer.expect("[SUCCESS]")
testie.expect("I2C_DEV(0): successfully wrote 4 bytes to the bus\n")
...
# many many more test cases here, including simulation of badly
behaving slaves and bus recovery...
```
I have sketched a I2C slave implementation to run on the 'test peer' in
[1] (under `tests/softi2ccli`). It is in no means production code, but a
quick prove of concept. But IMHO this would be a very easy and straight
forward way to have an automatic test-suite that would work on someones
desk for now.
Integration into the bigger picture would hopefully be easy doable, but
this not in the scope of this particular proposal here...
For now my goal would simply be to build a test suite for assisting with
the upcoming I2C remodeling to get some hands-on experience and speed up
the testing efforts for that task.
Cheers,
Hauke
[1] https://github.com/haukepetersen/RIOT/tree/add_softi2cli
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