Continuous integration

[spacekitteh]

Since Android (and therefore CopperheadOS) is such a huge project, continuous integration (with static and dynamic analysis, eventually) should be added. This is a pretty big task, but ultimately, one that will pay off.

CI solutions

• Hydra
  • Based on Nix, so it takes every build input into account (e.g. version of gcc you're compiling with, version of a particular library, etc) automatically.
  • Very easy to break up a huge build into individual components with individual options and individual tests and have everything "just work"
  • Requires writing a Nix expression to evaluate, which is more difficult initially but pays off huge
• Travis CI
  • Hard to jury-rig into doing dependent builds
    • Solution as a Gradle plugin
  • 50 minute job timeout (arbitrary multiple jobs per build, though)
• Linaro Developer Cloud seems to be a new hardware test cloud for ARMv8 stuff
  • Outdated overview
• Jekins probably has the best support overall for AOSP right now.
  • Repo plugin for Jenkins
  • Swarm slave for AOSP used with this Docker container AOSP build script

Analysis tools

• Valgrind
• Lint
• Kcov
• Kasan
• Android Compatibility Test Suite

Related work

• ibuild

  ibuild is a toolkit for AOSP setup, build, continuous integration, release and engineering computing node by bash script and other Open Source tools. It is simpleness, lightweight, decoupling, modularization, parameterization, C/S and P2P mixed architecture.

• How-to Automate Your ROM Build Process Using Jenkins - Setup Nightlies

[kewde]

I would like to propose looking into coverity, it has been very very helpful and gives the most detailed analysis I've ever seen in a tool.

HTC has used this tool before and found quite the amount of high-level defects.

Coverity sample on Android kernel

[kewde]

I would like to propose looking into coverity, it has been very very helpful and gives the most detailed analysis I've ever seen in a tool.

HTC has used this tool before and found quite the amount of high-level defects.

Coverity sample on Android kernel

[Rudd-O]

Not what you want, but I hope it's useful: https://github.com/Rudd-O/copperheados-build

[Rudd-O]

Not what you want, but I hope it's useful: https://github.com/Rudd-O/copperheados-build