Python is getting more and more popular for testing embedded hardware devices. These use cases requires the control of of external signal generators and measurement devices. Libraries for accessing this kind of equipment would be very useful. Also more advanced user dialogs could be useful for testi…

I don’t personally have experience from this, but I know RF is used a lot for testing embedded devices. There have been some RoboCon talks related to that you ought to be able to find via robocon.io .

Dear Pekka, thanks a lot for your answer. I have at the moment one small project ongoing to find out if RF is suitable or not. We looked into Pytest, RF and start from scratch. At the moment it looks like the fastest way is to use Python without using any test framework from the software domain. W…

Hi Ernst, What python does really well is providing many many modules for doing many many things including interfacing with hardware What python doesn’t do well (but better than some other programming languages (C programmer here :raised_hand_with_fingers_splayed:)) is readability to non coders an…

Hi Dave, thanks a lot for your thoughts concerning my hardware testing question. Until for some few days ago I believe a hybrid approach would be the best solution too, reusing the RF report and the SSHLibrary for communication to the embedded Linux target. We started the programming of two compet…

[image] Ernst: concerning my hardware testing question. Until for some few days ago I believe a hybrid approach would be the best solution too, reusing the RF report and the SSHLibrary for communication to the embedded Linux target. Hi Ernest, I’m developing some libraries to manipulate ADP3…

I‘ve been experimenting with robotframework for wrapping some end to end integration tests for a complex embedded linux device some years ago. I consider robotframework very interesting cause you can abstract away all the complexity of embedded hardware interfacing (anything which is Python scriptab…

There are a couple of already built-in libraries that you can use for HW testing like pyserial for serial data testing and give AT commands to control your HW and modules.

@Ernst There are some quite good talks on YouTube as well. E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q4-AjqpO9M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jchu1tHvJE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLB-XlC8Y-U

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