<div dir="ltr">Hi folks,<div><br></div><div>Let me summarize the yesterday's discussion in a few keys points:</div><div><ul><li>Greg's proposal aims at simplicity and is useful mainly for test cases which can be written in a few minutes. More complex test cases are not suitable for the YAML approach.</li><li>The above implies that the YAML based test cases would be supported alongside the existing approach. This fast way to implement simple test cases would likely be a valuable addition.<br></li><li>The big picture idea behind the YAML test cases is to take an application with interactive input, send commands, collect output and compare the output with expected string(s).</li><li>Greg may be able to make the code available and may assess how to integrate it with DTS.</li></ul><div>Regards,</div></div><div>Juraj</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 8, 2024 at 6:36 PM Honnappa Nagarahalli <<a href="mailto:Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com">Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><snip><br>
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> Hello Honnappa,<br>
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> > Hi Gregory,<br>
> > I do not fully understand your proposal, it will be helpful to join the DTS<br>
> meetings to discuss this further.<br>
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> Agree, let's discuss the proposal details during the DTS meeting.<br>
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> > YAML has wide support built around it. By using our own text format, we will<br>
> have to build the parsing support etc ourselves.<br>
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> > However, YAML is supposed to be easy to read and understand. Is it just a<br>
> matter for getting used to it?<br>
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> I selected YAML for 2 reasons:<br>
> * Plain and intuitive YAML format minimized test meta data.<br>
> By the meta data I refer to control tags and markup characters<br>
> that are not test commands.<br>
> * YAML has Python parser.<br>
I have mis-understood your proposal. I agree with your above comments.<br>
+1 for the proposal.<br>
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> Regards,<br>
> Gregory<br>
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