prplos/.gitlab/tests/cram/README.md

Cram tests

This directory contains the cram test suites used by the testbed jobs. Generic tests live in generic/; each supported device also has a board directory. Tests under post/ run separately after every selected main suite.

Component buckets

components.yml assigns tests to the component jobs:

• sanity contains DUT and environment checks whose failure invalidates the result of any component bucket.
• lcm contains tests matched by the explicit Lifecycle Manager globs.
• prplmesh contains tests matched by the explicit prplMesh and wireless stack globs.
• prplos is the computed remainder after the sanity and explicit buckets are removed.
• full preserves the complete legacy suite and its ordering.

A trimmed manifest looks like this:

version: 1
sanity:
  include:
    # Globs are relative to the cram test root.
    - "*/005-build-config.t"
components:
  lcm:
    description: Lifecycle Manager
    include:
      - "generic/lcm/**/*.t"
  prplmesh:
    description: prplMesh + wireless stack (pwhm/mlo/apmld/wifi)
    include:
      - "**/*prplmesh*.t"

Every test in a split suite belongs to exactly one of sanity, lcm, prplmesh, or the prplos remainder. Sanity matches are removed first and must not also match an explicit component glob. A non-sanity test may match at most one explicit component; tests that match none enter the remainder. To reassign a test, add or adjust an include glob in the desired bucket. The prplos remainder is recomputed automatically.

For prplmesh, lcm, and prplos, the resolver puts the board's ordered sanity block before the ordered component block. Sanity checks therefore run first in each split component job. Non-sanity tests still run once across the three buckets. The full selection keeps the legacy suite byte-for-byte, and tests under post/ continue to run separately after every selected main suite.

The smoke and hw_only sets are reserved for the upcoming QEMU testbed lane (CI-5): smoke is the fast QEMU pre-gate set, while hw_only contains tests excluded from the QEMU candidate set. The lint validates both sets; hardware jobs do not use them.

Scripts

• cram_component_bucketing.py provides the shared manifest, collection, glob expansion, and partition logic.
• resolve-component-tests.py prints the ordered test list for one board and component.
• check-component-coverage.py validates the manifest and reports sanity and bucket counts, newly added remainder tests, and broken test symlinks.

cram_component_bucketing.py uses underscores because it is an importable module. Executable scripts follow the repository's hyphenated CLI convention.

Selecting pipeline jobs

Non-scheduled pipelines create every component job and the non-DUT lint cram component manifest job as manual jobs and start none of them. Play the lint at any time, or play the wanted bucket jobs once the board's build test job has finished. Manually started jobs never gate the pipeline result.

To start buckets automatically, set the pipeline-level CRAM_COMPONENTS variable to a comma-separated list containing one or more of full, prplmesh, lcm, and prplos. Do not add spaces around the commas. Listed buckets start as soon as their board's build succeeds and keep the board's existing blocking behavior. The variable is unset by default.

For example:

CRAM_COMPONENTS=prplmesh
CRAM_COMPONENTS=lcm,prplos
CRAM_COMPONENTS=full

Release tag pipelines (prplware-v*) start the full jobs automatically; the other buckets stay manual there. Scheduled pipelines never create cram jobs, because they also never create the build jobs these jobs need. The job names have the form cram <Board> [<component>], such as cram OSPv2 [lcm]. The trailing component name lets GitLab group the four jobs for a board in the pipeline UI.

Resolving tests locally

The CI jobs call the resolver at runtime. Run it from the same checkout and Python environment that will run cram so its filesystem view and PyYAML dependency match the job:

.gitlab/tests/cram/scripts/resolve-component-tests.py \
  --test-root .gitlab/tests/cram \
  --manifest components.yml \
  --board wnc-freedom \
  --component prplos

The command prints the ordered test paths for cram. Valid component values are full, sanity, prplmesh, lcm, and prplos. Use sanity to inspect the always-run block. The sanity value is for inspection, not pipeline job selection.

Run the manifest lint from that environment as well:

.gitlab/tests/cram/scripts/check-component-coverage.py \
  --test-root .gitlab/tests/cram \
  --manifest components.yml

By default, the lint prints the full and sanity counts, the component and reserved-set counts, and warnings without listing the entire prplos remainder. It rejects unmatched include globs, overlaps between sanity and an explicit component, and overlaps between explicit components. Add --print-remainder to include the sorted remainder list.

Add --base-ref <commit> to compare against the tests tracked by a Git revision. --base-list <path> accepts a newline-separated baseline instead; the two baseline options are mutually exclusive. The lint still succeeds when a newly added test enters the prplos remainder, but prints a warning so the assignment can be reviewed.

The lint is a manual, non-gating play button in every non-scheduled pipeline. When played in a merge request pipeline, it still receives the diff base automatically. Other pipeline types run the same manifest checks without a comparison baseline; scheduled pipelines skip the job.