Tue-4-Mar, 11:15am, F. Boudra, T.Baker, M.Wasilewski

LCA14-204: Intro to CI @ Linaro 2 of 3

Hour 1● QA Services will introduce you to existing Linaro Test Plans● Builds and Baselines will provide an overview to our build system, how

to create, manage and close out a build and how to submit the build artifacts to LAVA for a test on lab hardware.

Hour 2● LAVA will describe the process of adding new test capabilities

(Platforms and/or external test equipment)● QA Services will overview how they use LAVA for tests

Hour 3● LAVA will show you new features to improve test result filtering and

Visualization in LAVA● QA Services will show you how Linaro rolls all the Build results, Test

Results (Manual / LAVA) into our test reports

Intro to CI @ Linaro

Anything can be automated ... Well, almost anything

Adding new Boards to LAVA

• Power Design• Boot on Power• USB / External Power • Reliable Power cycle

• Remote Control• Serial Console

• Persistent over Power• Offline Management

• IPMI/SoL • ADB/Fastboot

Hardware Considerations

• UEFI• Booting from Menu Options

• Networking Support & Network Boot• Media Boot (SATA/SDCARD/etc...)

• Minimize requirements for UEFI shell intervention• Hard to automate, Slow, color / escape codes

• uboot• zimage & uimage capabilities• Network enablement

• General• Static IP Addesses can work, DHCP is preferred• Unique; MAC addresses / Serial Numbers

Bootloader Considerations

• Automation should start with Prebuilt binaries, • Bootloader• Kernel• DTB• Ramdisk (optional)• Root Filesystem

• Documentation to boot the Platform• What are the specifics

• The first step in integration is reproduce the platform boot in our lab• Are there any special cases

• Security• Magic boot commands

Software Considerations

Any Questions?

Adding a new board to LAVA

• Regular daily tests (scheduled from Jenkins)• Release tests (scheduled manually)• Ad-hoc testing• Test development

QA - Using LAVA for tests

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