On 15 July 2012 17:18, Michael Hudson-Doyle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Zach Pfeffer <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> On 12 July 2012 09:58, Andy Doan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 07/12/2012 02:42 AM, YongQin Liu wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi, All
>>>>
>>>> Here just some thought about the implementation of  black-box test.
>>>> If you have any ideas, or something I missed, please give a comment.
>>>> Anything will be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> *Glue between lava and android*
>>>>
>>>> In android there is  a directory /data/blackbox_tesxt/, under it are
>>>> TODO, TESTING, DONE 3 direcories.
>>>>
>>>>   * TODO:  the flags for test that need to run will be put here
>>>>   * TESTING:  the flags for test that are running will be put here.
>>>>
>>>>     normally, there should be only one entry.
>>>>     In the future will be more entries when we support test execution
>>>>     via thread
>>>
>>>>   * DONE:  the flags for test that have been completed  will
>>>>
>>>>     be put here
>>>>
>>>> About the entry format,  will use JSON or just key/value pair. but need
>>>> to have the following two features
>>>> 1. one item to indicate the command to run
>>>> 2. other items used for pass information between android test tool and
>>>> lava job
>>>>
>>>> *Black-box test framework on Android*
>>>>
>>>> On android, a test framework will check the entries in TODO, and run the
>>>> command indicated in the entry.
>>>> Before the test is start to run, the framework will put the entry to
>>>> TESTING, and after test finished will put the entry to DONE.
>>>> when run the test command, this framework will run the command and pass
>>>> the entry file as parameter.
>>>>
>>>> The black-box test framework in android mainly do:
>>>> 1. invoked after boot up and home screen is displayed.
>>>>      also charge for prepare the test environment like unlock screen,
>>>> disable suspend
>>>> 2. charging for invoking test command and changing the status of the
>>>> each test
>>>>
>>>> *Framework on LAVA*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Will have 2 actions
>>>> 1. install_black-box_test
>>>
>>>
>>> I can see why you are proposing this. However, I'm wondering if this is what
>>> Zach was envisioning? ie - I thought the assumption was the android build
>>> would come pre-populated with these things installed. However, maybe we need
>>> this so we can support something like an AOSP build?
>>>
>>> I guess I have two questions:
>>> 1) can you describe what the install_black-box_test action would look like?
>>>
>>> 2) Zach - are you okay with this approach?
>>
>> I think these are interesting ideas. I like the idea of the files.
>>
>> I think all of this is actually handled in the blackbox itself and the
>> only thing that LAVA does is call a well-known function, then wait
>> some time t, then reset the unit and read the output file at a
>> well-known location. Everything else we'd handle on target.
>
> But if we want to run blackbox tests on AOSP, we'll have to do
> _something_ in lava, right?  Can that be as simple as installing an apk
> or something with adb?

Not really. We build AOSP from a copy of their manifest. It wouldn't
be hard to just add the test stuff in.

>
> Cheers,
> mwh



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