ESP-IDF comes with a unit test app based on Unity - unit test framework. Unit tests are integrated in the ESP-IDF repository and are placed in ``test`` subdirectory of each component respectively.
The normal test cases will be executed on one DUT (Device Under Test). Components need to communicate with each other (like GPIO, SPI ...) can't be tested with normal test cases.
Multiple devices test cases support writing and running test with multiple DUTs.
TEST_CASE_MULTIPLE_DEVICES("gpio multiple devices test example", "[driver]", gpio_master_test, gpio_slave_test);
The macro ``TEST_CASE_MULTIPLE_DEVICES`` is used to declare multiple devices test cases.
First argument is test case name, second argument is test case description.
From the third argument, upto 5 test functions can be defined, each function will be the entry point of tests running on each DUT.
Running test cases from different DUTs could require synchronizing between DUTs. We provide ``unity_wait_for_signal`` and ``unity_send_signal`` to support synchronizing with UART.
As the secnario in the above example, slave should get GPIO level after master set level. DUT UART console will prompt and requires user interaction:
Once the signal is set from DUT2, you need to press "Enter" on DUT1, then DUT1 unblocks from ``unity_wait_for_signal`` and starts to change GPIO level.
The normal test cases are expected to finish without reset (or only need to check if reset happens). Sometimes we want to run some specific test after certain kinds of reset.
For example, we want to test if reset reason is correct after wakeup from deep sleep. We need to create deep sleep reset first and then check the reset reason.
To support this, we can define multiple stages test case, to group a set of test functions together::
static void trigger_deepsleep(void)
{
esp_sleep_enable_timer_wakeup(2000);
esp_deep_sleep_start();
}
void check_deepsleep_reset_reason()
{
RESET_REASON reason = rtc_get_reset_reason(0);
TEST_ASSERT(reason == DEEPSLEEP_RESET);
}
TEST_CASE_MULTIPLE_STAGES("reset reason check for deepsleep", "[esp32]", trigger_deepsleep, check_deepsleep_reset_reason);
Multiple stages test cases present a group of test functions to users. It need user interactions (select case and select different stages) to run the case.
*`idf.py -T all -E xxxbuild` - build unit test app with all unit tests, except for unit tests of some components. (For instance: `idf.py -T all -E ulp mbedtls build` - build all unit tests exludes ulp and mbedtls components).
You can also run ``idf.py -T all flash`` or ``idf.py -T xxx flash`` to build and flash. Everything needed will be rebuilt automatically before flashing.
