This application is unit testing tool for embedded systems. Current implementation uses hardware debuggers from iSYSTEM.
Main features:
- testIDEA is interactive editor for creating and running unit tests.
- Test cases are executed on the real hardware or simulator without code instrumentation.
- The major advantage of non-instrumented unit tests is the fast turn-around-times, because the tests can run without compilation, linking and download.
- No test drivers are needed and therefore no additional resources are used on the target system.
- Tracing, profiling and code coverage analysis can be part of test cases.
- Reports with detailed information about test execution and results.
- YAML format is used to stores test cases.
- Test specification files can be easily edited with any text editor and later used either by scripts or testIDEA.
- Tests created with testIDEA can be easily used in scripts via isystem.test API.
- Integration with isystem.connect API expands the operation area of iSYSTEM test technology from unit testing to integration and system testing.
- Python scripts to run tests in headless mode can be generated.
- Code completion of function and variable names.
- Debugging of test cases with step execution is possible.
It is possible do download prebuilt testIDEA as part of iSYSTEM's winIDEA from iSYSTEM web page. If you want to build it yourself, follow instructions below.
testIDEA is Java application based on Eclipse, which can be built on Linux or Windows. For communication with debugger hardware it uses native library, which is part of this repository in compiled form. You can also download them as part of isystem.connect SDK.
Required tools:
- JDK 11
- Gradle (tested with version 6.1)
- Maven (tested with version 3.6)
Env. variable JAVA_HOME must be defined, and gradle and mvn must be
in PATH.
Clone this repository, then:
$ cd testIDEA
To build standalone application:
$ gradle exeBuildTest
To build Eclipse plug-in:
$ gradle pluginBuildTest