I am using KIF to test my application. I want to start my tests from command line, I looked into the tool WaxSim, looks like it's for running the tests on a simulator. But is there a way to use KIF tests in continous Integration with the real device. It would be helpful if I can invoke the tests from command line which run in a real device.
I know it is possible to do this with apple UI automation on ios5 beta version, but let me know if there is a way to do this in ios4.
Your help will be much appreciated.
-Teja
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Right now, no, there isn't. Are there any particular device-only needs you have, or is it just on general principle? We're looking in to a way of doing device tests in CI, but it's a tough nut to crack. All of the frameworks for controlling devices are private.
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I'm not sure if this question is going to be closed due to it being too novice but I thought I'll give this a shot anyway.
I am currently working on a Selenium Automation framework which, though seemingly well built, is running it's code by spawning threads. (The framework is proprietary so I'm unable to share the code)
This framework instead of using a Test Framework like JUnit or TestNG to run "Tests", uses a threaded approach to run. aka, the methods that read datasheet, instantate and execute the Drivers, report the results etc. them are executed by starting a thread, the class of which is instantiated at various places in the code on runtime.
My concern is: though it runs fine locally with providing the reports and what have you, what it would be unable to do, due to it not operating using a Test Runner, it's unable pass or fail a "Test".
Therefore, on putting this up on a build pipeline, "Test"s wouldn't be executed as there are no "tests" so to speak, thereby making it making it lose it's juice on CI/CD as far as reporting of build pipeline success or failure is concerned.
Am I justified/unjustified in my concerns? Why? And is there a workaround for this? At what ROI?
Resources or links shall be welcomed and beer shall be owed!! :-)
Cheers,
Danesh
I have 7 testsuites that are specific to languages something like German, Finish, Italy etc., I would like to execute all at one time. Kindly provide me solution on this. Referred to many materials, but having confusions that how we should work with RED Editor.
AFAIK the only possibility to add parallel execution to robot tests is to
parallelize code inside python classes or
make each test suite a
separate test call (i.e. with ctest execution) and call several of
them separately (ctest -j)
RIDE does not provide this, nor does robotframework natively.
In the recent releases of RED it is possible to use a custom script to launch robot from RED. The documentation shows some examples in the Launch Scripting section. In the section about launching using Gradle there is a nice Windows batch example.
This could be used to have RED launch Pabot to run several Robot sessions in parallel. This would allow you to achieve the parallelisation from RED you seek.
The Selenium Grid can help with this, but I'd consider it if the testing load needs to be spread across multiple machines. If only running locally, then pabot itself is sufficient.
I am very new at this and trying to get an understanding of this. I have read a lot on the DroneKit-Python site trying to figure out how exactly am I able to communicate with it.
Drone I am currently using is Iris+
I have looked more and there are software that already provide this, but I want to be able to control it plus more.
I want to set waypoints, tell it to then fly give the way points and keep going to them. Also, to be able to arm itself, which is in the example, and override the safety mechanism.
Here is the basic of what I am trying to use it for. Have it fly up at a certain time. Go to the waypoints 1,2,3,1,etc.. Then after X amount of time or on low battery go back to launch point and land.
I have found plenty of code that provides what i need to do, though I don't know if it will work and more importantly I don't even know how to start programming for this. Maybe I have the wrong approach in doing this?
I kind of want this to be a light API, so that in the future I can make a simple UI on my phone and insert some coordinates to give it ways points and that is it. I know there is software out there already that does it, but I want to remove the need for touching the drone. I want it to start and end autonomously.
If anyone could help provide some info that much would be greatly appreciated.
Assuming you have no companion computer (Iris+ does not by default), you are OK with running a ground station app (you won't be out of range to send commands to "end mission on time expiry") and that driving the behaviour from your phone is important, I would be looking at DroneKit Android.
Some notes:
You're going to have to touch the drone at some point to attach the
batteries.
You can arm the device from dronekit
You can override the safety mechanism from a script. I hope you have
a lot of money to pay for the new drones you're going to have to buy when they crash and all the litigation from damaged people and property (in other words "don't do it".
The default behaviour is to return the device to launch (RTL) on low battery. This is convigurable
Setting a time is more "problematic". You can have a timer in a script that then sends return-to-launch but the script needs to be connected to the UAV. This means that either you have to be running in a connected ground station (which might potentially be out of range) or on a companion computer.
Iris+ does not have a companion computer. You have to install one or connect from a Ground Control Station.
DroneKit-Python runs on Linux, MacOSX or Windows. You can't just run it on an ordinary phone, though you could find some other mechanism to send messages/scripts to it running on a companion Computer.
DroneKit Android runs on Android. We do have a planned iOS version too. In theory these could run on a companion computer, but in practice currently these are only used as ground stations.
I would like to make a Graphical interface for a home-made program using SFML on Raspberry Pi2. I am using Raspbian. I recompiled the graphical lib
It works fine unsing startx first, then using my application, which wors perfectly fine.
But I can't figure if it is possible or how to launch my application directly after boot without launching startx (just to optimise the cpu of the Raspberry).
Starting my program direcly after boot, I get the following error:
Failed to open X11 display: make sure the DISPLAY environnement variable is set correctly.
Aborted.
I already tested the classic export DISPLAY=:0.0 but without sucess.
I interested myself in x and xinit, but I am not sure that would even do it.
Where should I start looking? I don't need a complete solution, even a hint or an idea would be nice!
I checked to see if it was possible to open a graphical app without the X desktop environment and as that answer states, with Firefox at least, you need the X server which SFML also probably needs in order to create a window.
The answer states:
Basically something like:
$ X
Then you just start Firefox in this X server:
$ DISPLAY=:0 firefox
You can switch from the X server and the framebuffer by using
CTRL+ALT+F1 and CTRL+ALT+F7.
You could try that and see if it helps.
Also, still searching, I found a forum post on the sfml website about what you're trying to accomplish stating somewhere:
SFML requires OpenGL, so as far as I know you need at least X running,
but you probably don't need gnome, KDE or a similar Desktop
Environment on top.
The forum guy asking for help seems to have managed to get X11 and a SFML basic render window to work on Ubuntu server after someone posted a link to xinitrc. I guess, that's the route to go from here.
I"m (slowly) working on a app-engine app using the go language -- While I like many parts of the experience (the nice integration with google services and the go language itself) but I'm a bit suprised at the lack of debug facilities especially with app engine.
I know that you can log to the console (The lowest form of debugging IMHO) but all attempts at anything more clever (attaching gdb on the local instance) fails. (the build tools for app engine specifically seem to strip debug info)
I can't believe I'm the only one who has observed this so I'm wondering what other folks are doing to develop/debug in app engine?
There is not currently a better way than context.Errorf() and friends. Python just got pdb support in the 1.8.3 SDK. I have not heard of any similar debugger support for go. It is perhaps worth asking on the app engine go list about this.
I just red about your topic in this blog:
http://joshua.themarshians.com/hardcore-google-unit-testing.html
I can't give you an example but maybe it will help.
it's been an update and I thought to add what is the current state of affair.
The good news is the go tools now no longer strip debug symbols so if you are running on your local machine you can now get gdb support!
It's a bit of a process and ripe for some more automation (suggestions welcome)
in short:
look for the _app_go process
cd to the directory that it's running from
Attach to the process with the '-pid' command to gdb
Tell gdb the directory of source
Boom -- debugging.