Testing, certification and rolling releases

24x7

eCosCentric offers 24x7 automated testing services for all forms of hardware, running all the public and eCosCentric custom tests on your hardware in hundreds of customized eCosCentric configurations. These tests and configurations are designed to push eCos through as many states and regions of the code as possible, allowing the stability of eCos and RedBoot to be determined on your hardware.

Test Farm

The testing service is delivered by the eCosCentric test farm, an array of target platforms and development hosts that operate automatically 24x7 on selected source code bases ranging from the public eCos repository through to custom in-house development trees. eCos tests are built in a wide variety of eCos configurations and run automatically on the target platforms, with test results being logged in a database and triggers set to alert developers of new or intermittent failures, as well as problems that have been fixed.

This test farm is used by eCosCentric developers and customers for eCos certification and rolling releases. Rolling releases are periodic eCos releases for specific customer platforms. With over 15,000 tests required to run and pass per target platform, the eCosCentric test farm and certification process provides the highest level of quality assurance commercially available for eCos and RedBoot today.

Rolling Releases

For OEMs, semiconductor and development/evaluation platform manufacturers, rolling releases are the ideal way to provide current stable snapshots of eCos in long-term projects or platforms with a long life cycle. By enrolling in the eCosCentric rolling release program, you will benefit from the regular functional additions to eCos, as well as ensure that recent improvements and bug fixes from the public eCos repository are included in the eCos or RedBoot code base that is available for your customers. This program also allows any eCos developer to keep their platform up to date with the public eCos repository.

Alternatively, if your platform is already available in the public eCos repository, or you want to make it available through eCosCentric, the test farm is the ideal way to track the stability of the public eCos repository on your platform.

Certification

With eCos certification, the port of eCos to your target hardware will be tested within the test farm and the code inspected by the acknowledged eCos experts. Certification ensures that the port conforms to the eCos coding standards, has the appropriate CDL, does not break any pre-existing ports, passes all appropriate eCos tests and finally is of sufficient quality to be fully integrated into the public eCos repository.

For more information on the eCosCentric testing, certification and rolling release programs, please contact info@ecoscentric.com.