Suggestions for testing Simba OS applications?

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How tests can be made for Simba OS applications? There are following potential ways:

  1. Using Simba OS testing framework

    This is most desirable way, because tested code can use Simba functionality, including threads, queues, etc. However, I can’t figure out how to build native code with framework = simba under Platformio. There’s no framework and board for native platform.

    Tested application can be built with Simba build system, but it requires supporting two build systems and I had problems with setting up Simba build system, it does not work out of the box and requires lots of #define/#include debugging.

  2. Using Platformio tests

    Less desirable way, because it requires to make your code not dependent on Simba. Even if device-specific things can be relatively easily abstracted away, you can’t use threads, sync primitives and you have to target both Simba and libc for things like exact number of bytes-types and string manipulation. It’s too hard.

  3. Running tests on MCU

    Test code can be run on MCU, probably with Platformio testing system, but that has lots of issues. I would prefer native tests, however on-device tests might be the preferred way for some projects.

Any ideas?

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Figured out how to build test code against Simba OS type definitions (not actual Simba OS code, but at least you can use things like time_t and basic type definitions without switching between stdint.h and other POSIX things and Simba headers).

You have to add several include paths, like in this pseudo-makefile:

SIMBA_PATH=/your/simba/os/path
BIN=tests
CFLAGS=-I${SIMBA_PATH}/src \
       -I${SIMBA_PATH}/src/kernel/ports/linux/gnu \
       -I${SIMBA_PATH}/src/boards/linux \
       -I${SIMBA_PATH}/src/mcus/linux \
       -I${SIMBA_PATH}/src/filesystems \
       -I${SIMBA_PATH}/3pp/compat \
       -I${SIMBA_PATH}/src/drivers/ports/linux

SRCS=foo.c bar.c
OBJS = $(SRCS:.c=.o)

$(BIN): $(OBJS)
	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(OBJS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $(BIN)

Then you can even use Simba OS functions in tested code, but you have to stub them in tests.

I think it’s not that hard to integrate it with Platformio, using custom targets, but I have no experience with Scons and didn’t try it yet.