On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM Luca Vizzarro <luca.vizzarro@arm.com>
wrote:

> Add a new artifact module which provides DTS with remote and local file
> management capabilities. A new Artifact class is provided which acts as
> an abstract representation of a file that is present in any node in the
> testbed model. The same provides several helper file management
> functions, including open, which returns an ArtifactFile class which
> behaves like a standard Python file object for easy interoperability.
>
> Moreover, add a novel directory tree structure for both the remote
> temporary and local output directories. This structure would represent
> the test suites and test cases in structured folders as appropriate,
> where each artifact will be stored. The location of the artifact is
> determined by the time when it was first defined. If an artifact was
> defined during a test case stage, this will be placed in the test case's
> own folder.
>
> Signed-off-by: Luca Vizzarro <luca.vizzarro@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Paul Szczepanek <paul.szczepanek@arm.com>
> ---
>
> +    def touch(self, mode: int = 0o644) -> None:
> +        """Touch the artifact file, creating it if it does not exist.
> +
>

Oh yeah - is there a reason why we don't call touch in the init function?
running touch should be idempotent so we aren't worried about it being
called too many times. I was reminded when I saw in the softnic testsuite
that it is being called in the testsuite setup. Maybe this is extra work on
the testsuite side for no reason.