Running Tests (old)
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Overview
Target-based Test Units are controlled by a host computer, physically connected to the target via a configurable communication channel (TCP/IP or serial port). This article describes some common usage patterns and presents several examples.
Prerequisites
In order to run target-based Test Units, the following prerequisites are required.
Host
- Stride Host Tools installed on the host computer
Target
- Target transport configured
- TCP/IP over port 8000 is the default target transport. To apply other configurations, see Host Transport
- Target built with STRIDE library built in and one or more test cases
- Target app running [1]
Verifying Transport Settings
You can quickly verify your transport settings by running
Running Your Tests
Tests are executed on the target by running the program stride.exe on the host computer.
Command line options allow you to tailor the the script's operation, but at a minimum:
- The stride executable must be able to read the STRIDE database (.sidb) file that corresponds to the target build
By default, tests are run in the order in which their corresponding SCL pragmas were seen by the STRIDE compiler (This can be overridden; see below.)
Examples
Commonly useful flags for TestUnitRun.pl include -v and -u. (See the link for complete information). For example:
Desktop Interactive Testing
Useful for 'pre-flight' desktop testing as well as target debugging, the following command line runs the target tests without publishing results to STRIDE Test Space.
stride -r --database "/my/path/stride.sidb" --device TCP:localhost:8000
Testing with Publication to Test Space
This example will run the target tests and then publish the results to STRIDE Test Space according to the configuration specified in your Test Spaces Configuration File.
TestUnitRun.pl -d stride.db -u -n="My Test Run"
Specifying Tests to Run
By default all tests are run in the order in which their corresponding SCL pragmas were seen by the STRIDE compiler. This is typically what you want, but you may also specify which test suites to run and in what order they are to be run.[2]
- Specify test(s) to run and their order on the TestUnitRun.pl command line (using -r)
- Specify test(s) to run and their order by means of an Order File
Notes
- ↑ If target is multi-process, both the target and the STRIDE I/O daemon process must be started.
- ↑ A test suite here is the grouping of tests by SCL pragma; this corresponds to either:
- a test class
- #pragma scl_test_class()
- a set of free functions, or
- #pragma scl_test_flist()
- a C-based class)
- #pragma scl_test_cclass()
- a test class
