Re: [PATCH 0/9] Improve testsuite executability, basic GitHub CI

[Zhihang Wei <wzh@ilbers.de>]

On 5/7/26 10:27, 'MOESSBAUER, Felix' via isar-users wrote:
> On Mon, 2026-03-23 at 09:30 +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> There were several proposals for wrapping the testsuite execution into
>> some container. There is even docker-isar already, though this one was
>> not yet used for a wrapper.
>>
>> This new approach enhances the existing container to "test-container", a
>> kas-based environment that contains all required testsuite dependencies
>> and can run them both as CI base container as well as via a script that
>> is kas-container-like (actually using it). So, all the setup steps are
>> history now, just call
>>
>>      scripts/run-tests.sh -t dev
>>
>> to execute the minimal testsuite locally. Or just run
>>
>>      scripts/run-tests.sh testsuite/citest.py:test_dev_apps
> Hi,
>
> this series is super-useful for local testing. It especially helps when
> switching between isar patch series and testing multiple things in a
> row. It further can be easily extended for testing the rootless mode,
> which otherwise is tricky.
>
> Can we please integrate this, it still cleanly applies on top of isar
> 1.1.
>
> Felix

It's on my radar.

And your unprivileged build patch set will be next.

Zhihang

>> to execute a specific test (avocado command line interface).
>>
>> Along that, kas is updated consistently to 5.2, using the trixie
>> container now. The testsuite loses some obsolete KFAIL tags. And,
>> finally, some basic CI step is added as GitHub action.
>>
>> The latter can be considered an RFC for now. It's unclear how far we can
>> go on public CI by parallelizing some of the test sets. Avocado lacks
>> support for test dependencies [1], thus this would require additional
>> maintenance and may still run into the limitations of public GitHub
>> runners.
>>
>> A full run of this series can be found at [2]. This also allows to try
>> out the container before it was built officially, just set this prior to
>> calling run-tests.sh:
>>
>>      CONTAINER_BASENAME=ghcr.io/siemens/isar
>>
>> Jan
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/issues/6131#issuecomment-2694016818
>> [2] https://github.com/siemens/isar/actions/runs/23426024062
>>

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