LinuxCon + CloudOpen + ELC-E Europe 2014

ktest.pl is a perl script that lives in the tools directory of the Linux kernel. Although it has "test" in its name, ktest.pl does not suppy any test itself but is a utility to automatically build, install, boot and then run a test on a test machine. The test machine must be a different machine than what ktest.pl is executed on. That other machine can be a virtual machine, and embedded device, or another desktop or server. The requirements is that the host box must be able to remotely reboot the test box, it must be able to read the test box console, and must be able to ssh into the test box.

This tutorial will walk the audience through, step by step, how to set up an embedded board and test it from a laptop computer using ktest.pl. It will include a live demonstration as well.