For a long time now we have had test tools that help with device bring-up and with ensuring that we can run our example applications. Until now that has been available as the mir-test-tools
package. However, this doesn’t “play nice” with Ubuntu Core and as a result I’ve been been working to repackage the mir-test-tools
as a snap and make it available in the snap store.
I’m pleased to announce a release candidate of the mir-test-tools
snap. This makes it easy to run the following tests:
-
sudo snap run mir-test-tools.basic-test
(This runs a very simple test to prove that a Mir server and client can be started and connect to each other.) -
sudo snap run mir-test-tools.smoke-test
(This runs each of the example Mir clients and reports any that fail) -
sudo snap run mir-test-tools.stress-test
(This runs the mir_stress client - adjust the length of the test with--test-timeout <seconds>
) -
sudo snap run mir-test-tools.qt-test
(This runs a simple Qt client and reports if it fail) -
sudo snap run mir-test-tools.sdl2-test
(This runs an SDL2 client and reports if it fail)
All of these commands report to the console and will set the return to non-zero if the test fails. That’s convenient for the tools running running automated tests on reference hardware.
In addition, there’s a debugging option that starts a bash session with the environment set up for the tests:
sudo snap run mir-test-tools.bash
I’ve tested this on 18.04LTS desktop and Core16 on RPi3.
You might notice that this uses the development version of Mir. That’s because I had to make some minor changes to the test programs to get them running in a snap.