autohilt

The test engine for autoHILT — automated hardware-in-loop testing for embedded systems.

autoHILT turns a drawing of your test station into pytest fixtures: draw the station (MCUs on their board, debugger, relays, power) on the autoHILT canvas, publish it, and this package brings those components to life as fixtures named after your own drawing — my_mcu, cli, dut_power — in plain, unmodified pytest.

python3 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install autohilt
autohilt init            # the first-run wizard: repo, login, config, starter test
pytest --ah-dev          # iterate — results are never recorded

Every test computer carries a built-in greeter endpoint, so the whole loop works before any hardware arrives:

def test_hello(greeter):
    assert greeter.ping() == "hello from my-rig v1"

Plain pytest is a production run — recorded against your workspace — so it insists on a tree it can trace (committed, pushed, credentialed) and names every missing precondition instead of quietly downgrading the run.

Commands

Requires Python 3.9+ and pytest 7 or 8. The full walkthrough — account to recorded run in about ten minutes, no hardware required — is at autohilt.com.

• Homepage: https://autohilt.com
• Contact: hello@autohilt.com