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README.md
Unit Test App
ESP-IDF unit tests are run using Unit Test App. The app can be built with the unit tests for a specific component. Unit tests are in test
subdirectories of respective components.
Building Unit Test App
CMake
- Follow the setup instructions in the top-level esp-idf README.
- Set IDF_PATH environment variable to point to the path to the esp-idf top-level directory.
- Change into
tools/unit-test-app
directory idf.py menuconfig
to configure the Unit Test App.idf.py -T <component> -T <component> ... build
withcomponent
set to names of the components to be included in the test app. Oridf.py -T all build
to build the test app with all the tests for components havingtest
subdirectory.- Follow the printed instructions to flash, or run
idf.py -p PORT flash
. - Unit test have a few preset sdkconfigs. It provides command
idf.py ut-clean-config_name
andidf.py ut-build-config_name
(whereconfig_name
is the file name underunit-test-app/configs
folder) to build with preset configs. For example, you can useidf.py -T all ut-build-default
to build with config fileunit-test-app/configs/default
. Built binary for this config will be copied tounit-test-app/output/config_name
folder.
Legacy GNU Make
- Follow the setup instructions in the top-level esp-idf README.
- Set IDF_PATH environment variable to point to the path to the esp-idf top-level directory.
- Change into
tools/unit-test-app
directory make menuconfig
to configure the Unit Test App.make TEST_COMPONENTS=
withTEST_COMPONENTS
set to names of the components to be included in the test app. Ormake TESTS_ALL=1
to build the test app with all the tests for components havingtest
subdirectory.- Follow the printed instructions to flash, or run
make flash
. - Unit test have a few preset sdkconfigs. It provides command
make ut-clean-config_name
andmake ut-build-config_name
(whereconfig_name
is the file name underunit-test-app/configs
folder) to build with preset configs. For example, you can usemake ut-build-default TESTS_ALL=1
to build with config fileunit-test-app/configs/default
. Built binary for this config will be copied tounit-test-app/output/config_name
folder.
Flash Size
The unit test partition table assumes a 4MB flash size. When testing -T all
or TESTS_ALL=1
(Legacy GNU Make) or, this additional factory app partition size is required.
If building unit tests to run on a smaller flash size, edit partition_table_unit_tests_app.csv
and use -T <component> <component> ...
or TEST_COMPONENTS=
(Legacy GNU Make) or instead of -T all
or TESTS_ALL
if tests don't fit in a smaller factory app partition (exact size will depend on configured options).
Running Unit Tests
The unit test loader will prompt by showing a menu of available tests to run:
- Type a number to run a single test.
*
to run all tests.[tagname]
to run tests with "tag"![tagname]
to run tests without "tag" (![ignore]
is very useful as it runs all CI-enabled tests.)"test name here"
to run test with given name
Testing Unit Tests with CI
CI Test Flow for Unit Test
Unit test uses 3 stages in CI: build
, assign_test
, unit_test
.
Build Stage:
build_esp_idf_tests
job will build all UT configs and parse test cases form built elf files. Built binary (tools/unit-test-app/output
) and parsed cases (components/idf_test/unit_test/TestCaseAll.yml
) will be saved as artifacts.
When we add new test case, it will construct a structure to save case data during build. We'll parse the test case from this structure. The description (defined in test case: TEST_CASE("name", "description")
) is used to extend test case definition. The format of test description is a list of tags:
- first tag is always group of test cases, it's mandatory
- the rest tags should be [type=value]. Tags could have default value and omitted value. For example, reset tag default value is "POWERON_RESET", omitted value is "" (do not reset) :
- "[reset]" equal to [reset=POWERON_RESET]
- if reset tag doesn't exist, then it equals to [reset=""]
- the
[leaks]
tag is used to disable the leak checking. A specific maximum memory leakage can be set as follows:[leaks=500]
. This allows no more than 500 bytes of heap to be leaked. Also there is a special function to set the critical level of leakage not through a tag, just directly in the test codetest_utils_set_critical_leak_level()
.
The priority of using leakage level is as follows:
- Setting by tag
[leaks=500]
. - Setting by
test_utils_set_critical_leak_level()
function. - Setting by default leakage in Kconfig
CONFIG_UNITY_CRITICAL_LEAK_LEVEL_GENERAL
.
Tests marked as [leaks]
or [leaks=xxx]
reset the device after completion (or after each stage in multistage tests).
TagDefinition.yml
defines how we should parse the description. In TagDefinition.yml
, we declare the tags we are interested in, their default value and omitted value. Parser will parse the properities of test cases according to this file, and add them as test case attributes.
We will build unit-test-app with different sdkconfigs. Some config items requires specific board to run. For example, if CONFIG_ESP32_SPIRAM_SUPPORT
is enabled, then unit test app must run on board supports PSRAM. ConfigDependency.yml
is used to define the mapping between sdkconfig items and tags. The tags will be saved as case attributes, used to select jobs and runners. In the previous example, psram
tag is generated, will only select jobs and runners also contains psram
tag.
Assign Test Stage:
assign_test
job will try to assign all cases to test jobs defined in .gitlab-ci.yml
, according to test environment and tags. For each job, one config file with same name of test job will be generated in components/idf_test/unit_test/CIConfigs/
(this folder will be passed to test jobs as artifacts). These config files will tell test jobs which cases it need to run, and pass some extra configs (like if the case will reset) of test case to runner.
Please check related document in tiny-test-fw for details.
Unit Test Stage:
All jobs in unit_test
stage will run job according to unit test configs. Then unit test jobs will use tiny-test-fw runner to run the test cases. The test logs will be saved as artifacts.
Unit test jobs will do reset before running each case (because some cases do not cleanup when failed). This makes test cases independent with each other during execution.
Handle Unit Test CI Issues
1. Assign Test Failures
Gitlab CI do not support create jobs at runtime. We must maunally add all jobs to CI config file. To make test running in parallel, we limit the number of cases running on each job. When add new unit test cases, it could exceed the limitation that current unit test jobs support. In this case, assign test job will raise error, remind you to add jobs to .gitlab-ci.yml
.
Too many test cases vs jobs to run. Please add the following jobs to .gitlab-ci.yml with specific tags:
* Add job with: UT_T1_1, ESP32_IDF, psram
* Add job with: UT_T1_1, ESP32_IDF
The above is an example of error message in assign test job. In this case, please add the following jobs in .gitlab-ci.yml
:
UT_001_25:
<<: *unit_test_template
tags:
- ESP32_IDF
- UT_T1_1
UT_004_09:
<<: *unit_test_template
tags:
- ESP32_IDF
- UT_T1_1
- psram
The naming rule of jobs are UT
+ job type index
+ job index
. Each combination of tags is a different job type.
2. Debugging Failed Cases
First you can check the logs. It's saved as unit test job artifacts. You can download from the test job page.
If you want to reproduce locally, you need to:
- Download artifacts of
build_esp_idf_tests
. The built binary is intools/unit-test-app/output
folder.- Built binary in CI could be slightly different from locally built binary with the same revision, some cases might only fails with CI built binary.
- Check the following print in CI job to get the config name:
Running unit test for config: config_name
. Then flash the binary of this config to your board. - Run the failed case on your board (refer to Running Unit Tests section).
- There're some special UT cases (multiple stages case, multiple devices cases) which requires user interaction:
- You can refer to unit test document to run test manually.
- Or, you can use
tools/unit-test-app/unit_test.py
to run the test cases:- read document of tiny-test-fw, set correct
TEST_FW_PATH
andIDF_PATH
- run
unit_test.py
(see examples below)
- read document of tiny-test-fw, set correct
- You can also use
tools/tiny-test-fw/Runner.py
to run test cases (it will be the same as what Runner do). Please usepython Runner.py -c $CONFIG_FILE $IDF_PATH/tools/unit-test-app
command, whereCONFIG_FILE
is a YAML file with same name with CI job incomponents/idf_test/unit_test/CIConfigs
(artifacts, need to be download fromassign_test
job).
- There're some special UT cases (multiple stages case, multiple devices cases) which requires user interaction:
Running unit tests on local machine by unit_test.py
A couple of examples follow for running unit tests on local machine.
# run a simple unit test
./unit_test.py "UART can do select()"
# repeat the tests two times
./unit_test.py -r 2 "UART can do select()"
# use custom environment config file
./unit_test.py -e /tmp/EnvConfigTemplate.yml "UART can do select()"
# use custom application binary
./unit_test.py -b /tmp/app.bin "UART can do select()"
# run a list of unit tests
./unit_test.py "UART can do select()" "concurent selects work"
# add some options for unit tests
./unit_test.py "UART can do select()",timeout:10 "concurent selects work",config:release,env_tag:UT_T2_1
# run a multi stage test (type of test and child case numbers are autodetected)
./unit_test.py "check a time after wakeup from deep sleep"
# run a list of different unit tests (one simple and one multi stage test)
./unit_test.py "concurent selects work" "NOINIT attributes behavior"