Serial Unit Testing

Description

Serial unit testing is a cross-platform cli application and rust library. Using serial unit testing communication and testing with any serial port device can be done and most important automated.

Application

The application is structured in the following sub commands:

list: List all available serial ports
send: Send data to a serial port
check: Send data to a serial port and check for correct response
monitor: Continously display serial port data
run: Run a script on a serial port
verify: Verify a script can be parsed without failure
help: Print information about the application or a subcommand

Script syntax

Scripts can be executed with the run command or parsed with parser::parse_file. They must follow the following syntax:

Each line represents a test, test group or comment:

Comment

Each line starting with the hash sign # will be treated as a comment and ignored by the parser.

Example: # This is a comment

Group

Test can be grouped to separate them visually and optionally add group attributes to them. A group line starts with [ followed by the group name and ends with ]. All tests following the group line will belong to this group as long as no other group is introduced. If no group is present the tests will be independent.

Example: [Group One]

Test

Each line not being a comment or group (and not being empty) is interpreted as a test. Test have an input and an output part which must both be present and are separated with a colon :. Tests may start with a name surrounded with brackets (), otherwise the input content is used as the test display name. The input/output content must be surrounded with quotation marks "". Optionally the content can be prefixed with one of the following format specifier, otherwise text mode is used. Input and output format specifiers can be different.

b: Binary mode
o: Octal mode
d: Decimal mode
h: Hexadecimal mode

Content in text mode can be escaped with a backslash \ thus characters like " can be included.

Example: (Test One)h"58990d" : "OK\r"

Example Script

# Example script

(Independent Test One)"h\n" : "Help"
(Independent Test Two)h"00FF" : h"00"
h"00af" : h"03"

[Group One]
(Group Test One)"gp\n" : "yes"
(Group Test Two)"gq\n" : "no"

License

MIT License

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serial-unit-testing 0.1.4