Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/3] meta-skeleton: add a ptest example

["Alexander Kanavin" <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>]

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On Sat, 5 Jun 2021 at 10:38, Adrian Freihofer <adrian.freihofer@gmail.com>
wrote:

> > What I'm getting at is that I'm not sure if this should be in oe-core
> > if nothing in oe-core or other public layers actually benefits from
> > this.
> >
> > A much stronger case would be to enable these reports in some existing
> > recipe, then extend the ptest infrastructure on the yocto autobuilder
> > to make good use of them.
>
> Right, my goal here is primarily to support application development.
> But we should not consider application development as a "weak case". It
> is probably the area where most companies using Yocto put the most
> effort into embedded device development. Yocto should therefore provide
> the best possible support.
> I don't know if there are packages in Yocto core that could benefit
> from using JUnit or similar reports. I also don't know how this would
> then be integrated with Buildbot. However, in the industry I see mostly
> test frameworks like googletest and auto-builders like Jenkins and
> GitLab CI that support rendering such reports.
>

From that perspective, yes. I guess it should be RP's call to take it or
not, maybe we need a third opinion.

Alex

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