nanaimo 0.0.3

Framework for automating tests involving hardware test fixtures.

Warning

Nanaimo is evolving rapidly right now. It is undergoing a change to focus on pytest integration and to introduce its own plugin architecture to allow test apparatuses and instruments to be easily contributed.

It’s the delicious custard between your unit test framework and your hardware test fixtures.

Nanaimo is a set of utilities and plugins designed to enable real hardware test apparatuses to be integrated with unit test frameworks like pytest. This can allow on-target tests to run as part of continuous integration pipelines like buildkite or jenkins.

Example of S32K dev boards attached to Raspberry PI CI workers running the `buildkite`_ agent and using Nanaimo.

Nanaimo is designed to enable testing of software-defined, physical components in isolation to provide pre-integration verification of software interfaces and behavioural contracts. It adapts asynchronous control and monitoring of these components to fit familiar testing idioms (e.g. x-unit testing) using the popular python test framework, pytest.

Note

Nanaimo bars are about the best things humans have ever invented. This test framework isn’t as wonderful as the dessert but we hope it does bring a small smile to your face.