Features of OpenBMC Test Automation

Interface Feature List

  • REST
  • Out-of-band IPMI
  • SSH to BMC and Host OS

Key Feature List

  • Power on/off
  • Reboot Host
  • Reset BMC
  • Code update BMC and host
  • Power management
  • HTX bootme
  • XCAT execution
  • Network
  • IPMI support
  • Factory reset
  • RAS (Reliability, availability and serviceability)
  • Web UI testing

Debugging Supported List

  • SOL collection
  • FFDC collection
  • Error injection from host

Installation Setup Guide

  • Robot Framework Install Instruction

  • Miscelleneous Packages required to be installed for OpenBmc Automation. Install the packages and it's dependencies via pip

    REST base packages:

    $ pip install -U requests
$ pip install -U robotframework-requests

    SSH and SCP base packages: For more detailed installation instructions see robotframework-sshlibrary

    $ pip install robotframework-sshlibrary
$ pip install robotframework-scplibrary

OpenBMC Test Development

These documents contain details on developing OpenBMC test code and debugging.

Testing Setup Steps

To verify the installation setup is completed and ready to execute.

  • Download the openbmc-test-automation repository:
    $ git clone https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc-test-automation
$ cd openbmc-test-automation
  • Execute basic setup test run:
    $ robot -v OPENBMC_HOST:xx.xx.xx.xx templates/test_openbmc_setup.robot
    where xx.xx.xx.xx is the BMC hostname or IP.

Test Layout

There are several sub-directories within the openbmc-test-automation base which contain test suites, tools, templates, etc. These sub-directories are classified as follows:

tests/: Contains the general test cases for OpenBMC stack functional verification.

extended/: Contains test cases for boot testing, network testing, code update testing etc.

systest/: Contains test cases for HTX bootme.

xcat/: Contains test cases for XCAT automation.

ras/: Contains test cases for RAS (Reliability, availability and serviceability).

gui/: Contains test cases for web UI and security scanning tool automation.

tools/: Contains various tools.

templates/: Contains sample code examples and setup testing. `

Quickstart

To run openbmc-automation first you need to install the prerequisite Python packages which will help to invoke tests through tox (Note that tox version 2.3.1 or greater is required) or via Robot CLI command.

Robot Command Line

  • Execute all test suites for tests/:
    $ robot -v OPENBMC_HOST:xx.xx.xx.xx  tests
  • Execute a test suite:
    $ robot -v OPENBMC_HOST:xx.xx.xx.xx  tests/test_basic_poweron.robot

Tox Command Line

  • Install the python dependencies for tox:

    $ easy_install tox
$ easy_install pip

  • Initialize the following environment variables which will be used during testing:

    $ export OPENBMC_HOST=<openbmc machine ip address>
$ export OPENBMC_PASSWORD=<openbmc password>
$ export OPENBMC_USERNAME=<openbmc username>
$ export OPENBMC_MODEL=[./data/Barreleye.py, ./data/Palmetto.py, etc]
$ export IPMI_COMMAND=<Dbus/External>
$ export IPMI_PASSWORD=<External IPMI password>

  • For tests requiring PDU, set the following environment variables as well:

    $ export PDU_IP=<PDU IP address>
$ export PDU_USERNAME=<PDU username>
$ export PDU_PASSWORD=<PDU password>
$ export PDU_TYPE=<PDU type>
$ export PDU_SLOT_NO=<SLOT number>

    Note: For PDU_TYPE we support only synaccess at the moment.

  • For QEMU tests, set the following environment variables as well:

    $ export SSH_PORT=<ssh port number>
$ export HTTPS_PORT=<https port number>

  • For BIOS tests, set the following environment variables as well:

    $ export PNOR_IMAGE_PATH=<path to>/<machine>.pnor

  • Run tests:

    $ tox -e tests

  • How to run individual test:

    One specific test:

    $ tox -e default -- --include Power_On_Test  tests/test_basic_poweron.robot

    No preset environment variables, default configuration for all supported systems:

    $ OPENBMC_HOST=x.x.x.x tox -e default -- tests

    No preset environment variables, one test case from a test suite:

    $ OPENBMC_HOST=x.x.x.x tox -e default -- --include Power_On_Test tests/test_basic_poweron.robot

    No preset environment variables, the entire test suite:

    $ OPENBMC_HOST=x.x.x.x tox -e default -- tests

    No preset environment variables, the entire test suite excluding test cases using argument file:

    $ OPENBMC_HOST=x.x.x.x tox -e default -- --argumentfile test_lists/skip_test tests

    Exclude test list for supported systems:

    Barrleye:  test_lists/skip_test_barreleye
Palmetto:  test_lists/skip_test_palmetto
Witherspoon:  test_lists/skip_test_witherspoon

  • How to run CI and CT bucket test:

    Default CI test bucket list:

    $ OPENBMC_HOST=x.x.x.x tox -e default -- --argumentfile test_lists/HW_CI tests

    Default CI smoke test bucket list:

    $ OPENBMC_HOST=x.x.x.x tox -e default -- --argumentfile test_lists/CT_basic_run tests

  • Code update test:

    For BMC code update, download the system type *.ubi.mdt.tar image from https://openpower.xyz/job/openbmc-build/ and run as follows:

    For Witherspoon system:

    $ cd extended/code_update/
$ robot -v OPENBMC_HOST:x.x.x.x -v IMAGE_FILE_PATH:<image path>/obmc-phosphor-image-witherspoon.ubi.mtd.tar --include REST_BMC_Code_Update  bmc_code_update.robot

    For host code update, download the system type *.pnor.squashfs.tar image from https://openpower.xyz/job/openpower-op-build/ and run as follows:

    For Witherspoon system:

    $ cd extended/code_update/
$ robot -v OPENBMC_HOST:x.x.x.x -v IMAGE_FILE_PATH:<image path>/witherspoon.pnor.squashfs.tar --include REST_Host_Code_Update  host_code_update.robot

    For manual code update information please refer to code-update.md

  • Run extended tests:

    For loop test (default iteration is 10):

    $ robot -v OPENBMC_HOST:x.x.x.x -v OPENBMC_SYSTEMMODEL:xxxxxx -v ITERATION:n -v LOOP_TEST_COMMAND:xxxxxx extended/full_suite_regression.robot

    Example using tox testing a test suite for 5 times:

    OPENBMC_HOST=x.x.x.x  LOOP_TEST_COMMAND="--argumentfile test_lists/skip_test tests/test_fw_version.robot" ITERATION=5  OPENBMC_SYSTEMMODEL=barreleye tox -e barreleye -- ./extended/full_suite_regression.robot

Jenkins jobs tox commands

  • HW CI tox command:
    $ OPENBMC_HOST=x.x.x.x tox -e default -- --argumentfile test_lists/HW_CI tests