Automated Testing & Board Farming
summary
Workshop-style session collects current tools and hard lessons for automated board farms: labgrid reports moved coordinator to gRPC and added small Linux test controller boards to replace flaky USB hubs; LAVA remains useful for large central scheduling but lacks interactive workflows; exporters present physical sockets and control power with per-hardware drivers so sometimes you need one exporter per BeagleBone Black; teams describe using strategies to reprovision boards deterministically, overlayfs and USB gadget 9p for fast iteration, and a 30-board lab that runs CI and interactive builds reliably.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:50Current projects and tools
- 13:36GPIO handling challenges
- 18:14Board availability and testing
- 24:57Build systems and artifacts
- 30:19File system snapshots
- 33:33Standardizing boards and docs
- 37:28Resource sharing and multi-node
- 41:21LAVA versus Lab Grid
- 42:48Closing remarks
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