Hello folks,

Please find the WG meeting minutes below:

Attendees

Agenda

Minutes

Review/Carry forward pending action items

Honnappa - Patches to DPDK to address changing the constants and printfs under progress.
- Still in progress
Are the GPL files part of the framework or test cases?

§ Qemu-ga-client, qmp.py - are part of the framework used with VM based test cases. DTS uses these to communicate with VMs.

§ These files will be moved out of DTS into a separate repo. Honnappa to discuss with the Techboard on where to host the repo.

§ Owen - looking to see how to get Qemu-ga-client, qmp.py into DTS

§ Lijuan - texttable.py - found a library and is working on integrating it.

Lijuan - The makefile removal patch is ready to get merged (http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dts/list/?series=20610). Merge it in the 22.03 DTS release.

Still in progress (work left on < 5 test suites, target to get this done in 2 weeks)

Owen - Write a script to check if the formatters are throwing any errors.
- The responsibility of submitting the well formatted code is with the patch submitter
- The script should inform the developer what are the errors and suggest running the formatter script
- Lijuan will enable this script in CI
Owen - Investigate DTS test suites to check for redundant tests
- Unit testing (handled by meson now) - Can be removed, but we will add a deprecation notice for the next release, and will be removed in the release after that.
- “Does it compile?” tests - These are removed already

Merging DTS into DPDK

Try for 22.07 RC1
Focus on framework and test cases used in CI
Juraj has created a RFC patch to move the DTS framework to DPDK repo. Juraj to share this with DTS WG directly for further discussion.
AI Juraj - Try to split the RFC patch into logical parts.

DPDK Modifications Review

Action Items

Honnappa - Patches to DPDK to address changing the constants and printfs under progress.
Lijuan - Check to see if texttable.py can be replaced with Python libraries.
Owen - Add a deprecation notice to release notes and a warning in DTS to remove the unit testing from DTS.
Honnappa - Review the must have list from https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1s_Y3Ph1sVptYs6YjOxkUI8rVzrPFGpTZzd75gkpgIXY/edit#gid=1128536548 to ensure correct priority
Lijuan - To create the DTS test suite developer document.
Juraj - Review the DTS user guide to ensure the identified items in must have are incorporated.
Lijuan - Submit a patch for TestSuite_efd.test_perf_efd_valuesize to use the -c_args option in meson configure command
Honnappa - Discuss the possibility of the GPL file repo hosted under dpdk.org with the techboard. An alternate approach is to use git submodules, not sure if this solves the GPL issue.
Owen - Add a script/makefile/meson get Qemu-ga-client, qmp.py into DTS at run time.
Owen - Write a script to check if the formatters are throwing any errors.
Lijuan - Review and merge the pylama config patch.
Lijuan - Unpack tcl tools (needed for IXIA), store in dep/<directory>, test and submit a patch.

Any other business