Testlink Embedded Software Test Automation

[redpiyo]

Hi, I would like to ask if anyone know of any automation test tool for embedded real-time software that might be able to works with Testlink, currently i know that QTP and Selenium are able to integrate with TL but these tools mainly are for Application software. Would be grateful if anyone can share some info here. Thanks

[kob]

you can use your own framework of choice and log the results of the tests in testlink through the API.

[redpiyo]

hi can you recommend any framework that is able to integrate with Testlink api, currently there isn't any automation test tool for embedded system.

[kob]

robotframework for example. https://code.google.com/p/robotframework/
On their mailing list there was following topic: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic ... YS9214GqA8

What kind of embedded system do you have ?
What kind of interfaces do you have on that system ?
- Web
- TL1, or any other CLI interface
- SNMP
...

[redpiyo]

Thanks kob,

I am using rtems and Keil OS for real-time embedded system,

main interface we are using CAN and RS485.

Its appears that by using a custom framework for the automation test will requires our engineers to pick up this new language which only aims to provide automated data entry which i guess will be much easier if i can just execute the test automation elsewhere and using testlink to record our results manually but anyways thanks for the help.

[kob]

those were just an example.
Testlink has an API, you will just need to implement this in your own framework. Examples are available in a number of languages.

For the one I mentioned, the impact for the test engineers is not that big since the testscripts itself are keyword driven.
All you need to have is 1 person who can implement the keywords you need.
CAN and RS485 shouldn't be that difficult and most likely you already have something setup for that ?

[redpiyo]

Right now our engineers are using the primitive ways of writing test harness and running it on the hardware and observation and verification activities are manual, there is no network connectivity on the hardware as the interface mentioned did not have a RJ45, although theoretically we can inject testlink api into our existing test harness but i feel the value added is not that significant in our case because there are not much automation required here. But i really appreciate for the advise given , i will consider this approach for our future project.