Greatings Adam,

I'm happy to hear that you're trying to bring it up.

As I understand the final goal is to run it on regular basis. So, we need to make it properly from the very beginning.
Bring up of all features consists of 4 steps:

1. Create site-specific repository (we call it ts-rigs) which contains information about test rigs and other site-specific information like where to send mails, where to store logs etc. It is required for manual execution as well, since test rigs description is essential. I'll return to the topic below.

2. Setup logs storage for automated runs. Basically it is a disk space plus apache2 web server with few CGI scripts which help a lot to save disk space.

3. Setup Bublik web application which provides web interface to view testing results. Same as https://ts-factory.io/bublik

4. Setup Jenkins to run tests on regularly, save logs in log storage (2) and import it to bublik (3).

Last few month we spent on our homework to make it simpler to bring up automated execution using Jenkins - https://github.com/ts-factory/te-jenkins
Corresponding bits in dpdk-ethdev-ts will be available tomorrow.

Let's return to the step (1).

Unfortunately there is no publicly available example of the ts-rigs repository since sensitive site-specific information is located there. But I'm ready to help you to create it for UNH. I see two options here:

(A) I'll ask questions and based on your answers will create the first draft with my comments.

(B) I'll make a template/example ts-rigs repo, publish it and you'll create UNH ts-rigs based on it.

Of course, I'll help to debug and finally bring it up in any case.

(A) is a bit simpler for me and you, but (B) is a bit more generic and will help other potential users to bring it up.
We can combine (A)+(B). I.e. start from (A). What do you think?

Thanks,
Andrew.

On 8/17/23 15:18, Konstantin Ushakov wrote:

Greetings Adam,

Thanks for contacting us. I copy Andrew who would be happy to help

Thanks,

Konstantin

On 16 Aug 2023, at 21:50, Adam Hassick <ahassick@iol.unh.edu> wrote:



Greetings Konstantin,

I am in the process of setting up the DPDK Poll Mode Driver test suite as an addition to our testing coverage for DPDK at the UNH lab.

I have some questions about how to set the test suite arguments.

I have been able to configure the Test Engine to connect to the hosts in the testbed. The RCF, Configurator, and Tester all begin to run, however the prelude of the test suite fails to run.

https://ts-factory.io/doc/dpdk-ethdev-ts/index.html#test-parameters

The documentation mentions that there are several test parameters for the test suite, like for the IUT test link MAC, etc. These seem like they would need to be set somewhere to run many of the tests.

I see in the Test Engine documentation, there are instructions on how to create new parameters for test suites in the Tester configuration, but there is nothing in the user guide or in the Tester guide for how to set the arguments for the parameters when running the test suite that I can find. I'm not sure if I need to write my own Tester config, or if I should be setting these in some other way.

How should these values be set?

I'm also not sure what environment variables/arguments are strictly necessary or which are optional.

Regards,

Adam

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