Bug 5613

Summary: Add ability to export tests to decouple them from the build system
Product: [QA/Testing] Runtime Testing Reporter: Paul Eggleton <bluelightning>
Component: generalAssignee: Stefan Stanacar <sstncr>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: High CC: alexandru.c.georgescu, sgw
Version: 1.6   
Target Milestone: 1.6 M3   
Hardware: All   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Don't know
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 1596    

Description Paul Eggleton 2013-11-29 18:19:25 UTC 
Add the ability to export the tests so that they can run independently of 
the build system, as is required if you want to be able to hand the test 
execution off to a scheduler. testimage and associated code will still be in charge of exporting the tests, but it would allow a test server to manage the 
deployment, execution and results collection and not block the autobuilder waiting for this to complete.

Given that some of the test code needs to query variable values, we'd have to have a way to export static values for these, and then the exported values would be read instead when the test code was run externally.
Comment 2 Alexandru Georgescu 2014-04-03 05:57:06 UTC 
Setting this to verified. I was able to run the image_tests on real HW, therefore the feature is verified.
Comment 3 Paul Eggleton 2014-04-03 09:37:38 UTC 
Alex, just to check - did you export the tests with TEST_EXPORT_ONLY = "1" and then run the scripts separately to verify this one?
Comment 4 Stefan Stanacar 2014-04-03 09:43:42 UTC 
Alex, I think you meant to verify #5554, this feature is something totally different.