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Automated tests

Both unit tests and functional tests are used to verify pyOCD.

The primary difference between unit tests and functional tests is that unit tests will work without a debug probe connected. Some unit tests do take advantage of a connected probe to expand testing, but those tests will be skipped if no probe is present. In contrast, all functional tests require at least one probe to be connected.

Unit tests

The unit tests are located in the tests/unit directory of the repo. They must be executed using pytest, as they rely on the advanced capabilities of this tool.

To run the unit tests, simply invoke pytest in the root directory of the repo. Read the pytest usage to see the many options it provides.

To get code coverage results, do the following:

$ pytest --cov-report=html --cov=pyocd
$ open htmlcov/index.html

Functional tests

A series of quite comprehensive functional tests are provided in the test/ directory. The primary script for running these tests is automated_test.py. It will execute all functional tests in sequence for all connected debug probes, then produce a summary and JUnit-style XML report. This script is used to execute our CI test plan, and we frequently use it on our personal development systems to test prior to creating pull requests.

Functional tests:

  • basic_test.py: a simple test that checks a range of basic functionality, from flash programming to accessing memory and core registers.
  • blank_test.py: tests ability to connect to devices with with blank flash. (Not run by automated_test.py.)
  • commander_test.py: tests the pyocd commander functionality.
  • commands_test.py: tests commands supported by commander and gdb monitor commands.
  • concurrency_test.py: verify multiple threads can simultaneously access a debug probe, specifically for memory transfers.
  • connect_test.py: tests all combinations of the halt on connect and disconnect resume options.
  • cortex_test.py: validates CPU control operations and memory accesses.
  • debug_context_test.py: tests some DebugContext classes.
  • flash_loader_test.py: test the classes in the pyocd.flash.loader module.
  • flash_test.py: comprehensive test of flash programming.
  • import_all.py: imports all pyocd modules. (Not run by automated_test.py.)
  • gdb_test.py: tests the gdbserver by running a script in a gdb process. Note that on Windows, the 32-bit Python 2.7 must be installed for the Python-enabled gdb to work properly and for this test to pass.
  • json_lists_test.py: validates the JSON output from pyocd json.
  • parallel_test.py: checks for issues with accessing debug probes from multiple processes and threads simultaneously. (Not run by automated_test.py.)
  • probeserver_test.py: verify remote probe server and client.
  • speed_test.py: performance test for memory reads and writes.
  • user_script_test.py: verify loading of user scripts.

Azure Pipelines

PyOCD uses Azure Pipelines to run the CI tests for commits and pull requests. The pipeline runs the functional tests on a set of test machines, called self-hosted test agents in Azure Pipelines parlance. There is one each of Mac, Linux, and Windows test agents.

The complete results from pipeline runs are publicly accessible.

For pull requests, a pyOCD team member or collaborator must manually initiate the pipeline run by entering a special comment of the form "/azp run" or "/AzurePipelines run".

Testing with tox

pyOCD includes a configuration file for tox that enables easy testing of multiple Python versions. The tox tool is included in test install extra, so it will already be present in a standard pyOCD developer virtual environment.

To run the functional tests via tox, just execute tox from the root of the pyOCD repo. It will create new virtual environments for each Python version and run automated_test.py.

Currently only the functions tests are included in the tox configuration.

Test Setup

To make the tests pick the correct setup, a pyocd.yaml configuration file has to be used. For functional testing the file should contain a reference to a test_binary from test/data/binaries.

Example config file:

probes:
  E6614103E7176A23: # Probe's unique ID.
    target_override:  nrf52
    test_binary:      l1_nrf52840-dk.bin
    frequency:        6000000