Getting started with testIDEA

This tuto­r­i­al intro­duces our inte­grat­ed test­ing envi­ron­ment testIDEA. It focus­es on the basics:

• start­ing with the cre­ation of sim­ple unit tests,
• increas­ing the com­plex­i­ty to include test­ing of C++ con­struc­tors and meth­ods and state-machines,
• import­ing test vec­tors cre­at­ed in Excel into testIDEA and
• mea­sur­ing code cov­er­age, even when the tar­get micro­con­troller is miss­ing the required hard­ware trace func­tion­al­i­ty.

We pro­vide an exam­ple of how testIDEA can be used to export a suite of tests as a Python script, allow­ing Con­tin­u­ous Inte­gra­tion (CI) tools such as Jenk­ins and Bam­boo to auto­mate test­ing and eval­u­a­tion of test results.