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authorSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2021-03-07 17:35:17 -0700
committerTom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>2021-03-12 09:57:31 -0500
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doc: Explain briefly how to write new tests
Add a second on writing tests, covering when to use Python and C, where to put the tests, etc. Add a link to the existing Python test documentation. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ results. Advantages of this approach are:
U-Boot; there can be no disconnect.
- There is no need to write or embed test-related code into U-Boot itself.
It is asserted that writing test-related code in Python is simpler and more
- flexible than writing it all in C.
+ flexible than writing it all in C. But see :doc:`tests_writing` for caveats
+ and more discussion / analysis.
- It is reasonably simple to interact with U-Boot in this way.
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