Script based testing?

We are planning to write some Perl scripts to automate our testing and

we will use the U-Boot shell via the serial interface.

This is appealing because, for example, we can put tests into lengthy repeat

loops and run them automatically to stress our board.

We will use some of our own custom commands that we added to the build for the

FPGAs on our board but it seems to us very likely that this script based testing

has probably been done before by many U-Boot users for the "common" commands

that are in the build.

I am aware of the Kermit scripts in the tools/scripts directory but they perform only

a few commands.

I checked the mail archive at SourceForge but found nothing relevant, so I am

raising this on the list myself.

Are there any existing scripts (Perl or any other language) for U-Boot command line

testing and that are in the public domain already ?

Thanks,

Charles.

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Why Perl? expect seems to be more appropriate for such a task.

Not yet.

Arghh... NEVER post HTML on this list.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

Software Engineering:  Embedded and Realtime Systems,  Embedded Linux
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