Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hello EPICS community,

 

I have a question, that is quite broad in its nature (I know these don’t go down well here but thought I’d try anyway), regarding testing in EPICS.

 

Specifically I am interested in how people using EPICS generally test their applications and the logic in IOCs, at a unit testing level.

I am not talking about testing epics-base, of course I trust that your tests provide good coverage J. What I am interested in is how can I test logic that is in an IOC (db file or via smart database).

 

Essentially this boils down to 4 main questions:

 

- Given a db file what is the standard way to test logic and records inside it in an automated fashion?

- Using the V4 smart database, what is the standard way to mock the protocol i.e. PVA, to do more unit testing rather than integration testing?

- How do people mock hardware? Is this done by using the asynPortDriver interface?

- Has anyone tried using other libraries, such as google test, Catch2, doctest,… to do unit testing in EPICS? If so, how can I set this up with the EPICS build system?

 

Kind regards,

Tom