Advanced Test Harness Infrastructure for Validating ARM and FPGA-based Systems

Designed to cater to a wide range of peripheral devices and platforms, Analog Devices' Kuiper Linux distribution is built with more than 1000 Linux device drivers compatible with Xilinx and Intel FPGAs, Raspberry Pi boards, and several other platforms.

To ensure its quality, a test harness infrastructure must be in place to carry out continuous testing on actual hardware. This talk covers the design and implementation of such a fully automated test harness. The implemented architecture leverages the use of readily available components/technologies such as Jenkins, Docker, NetBox, and JFrog Artifactory and, at the same time, includes custom-built tools that can be tailored and extended to support existing or new devices and platform types.

By using an advanced resource locking mechanism, the hardware setups are also remotely available to others for development and debugging, when there are no automated tests running.