[OE-core] [PATCH] oeqa: enable testresults.json for testexport

[Alexander Kanavin]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 at 22:27, Stefan Kral <sk at typedivision.de> wrote:

> Doing build and test in one pipeline turns out to be more complicated due
> to:
>
> - build machine may be different from test machine (with access to
> hardware)
> - build the image is a one time job, tests may have to be repeated
> reproducibly
> - executing long running tests slows down image creation (for development)
> - tests on dedicated hardware should be runable asynchronously when hw is
> available
>
> Running tests by bitbake -c testimage could be an option but to provide a
> full repo/bitbake/cache setup to run test cases sounds not as easy as
> having just python installed. And for that, testexport does its job quite
> well.
>
> Btw. have you ever thought about to integrate/support some external test
> framework (like robot framework)?
>

Core project does all testing on qemu (using direct testimage); there are
no resources to set up testing on real hardware. So those scenarios aren't
well supported or tested, but patches/proposals welcome :)

Alex
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