The CHRE framework can be tested at various levels to ensure that components/modules components are working correctly and API contracts are being met. Below are some examples of what the team currently does to verify new changes.
Currently, unit tests exist for various core components and utilities. Since platform-specific components likely aren’t compilable/available on a host machine, only components that are OS independent can be tested via this path.
In order to write new tests, add a test source file under the test directory in the appropriate subdirectory. e.g. util/tests. Then, add the file to the GOOGLETEST_SRCS variable in the appropriate .mk file for that subdir, util/util.mk for example.
Unit tests can be built and executed using run_tests.sh.
PAL implementation tests verify implementations of PAL interfaces adhere to the requirements of that interface, and are intended primarily to support development of PAL implementations, typically done by a chip vendor partner. Additional setup may be required to integrate with the PAL under test and supply necessary dependencies. The source code is in the files under pal/tests/src and follows the naming scheme *_pal_impl_test.cc.
In order to run PAL tests, run: run_pal_impl_tests.sh. Note that there are also PAL unit tests in the same directory. The unit tests are added to the GOOGLETEST_SRCS target while PAL tests are added to the GOOGLETEST_PAL_IMPL_SRCS target.
Located under the apps/ directory, FeatureWorld nanoapps interact with the set of CHRE APIs that they are named after, and can be useful during framework development for manual verification of a feature area. For example, SensorWorld attempts to samples from sensors and outputs to the log. It also offers a break-it mode that randomly changes which sensors are being sampled in an attempt to point out stress points in the framework or platform implementation.
These apps are usually built into the CHRE framework binary as static nanoapps to facilitate easy development. See the Deploying Nanoapps section for more information on static nanoapps.
The Context Hub Qualification Test Suite (CHQTS) tests perform end-to-end validation of a CHRE implementation, by using the Java APIs in Android to load and interact with test nanoapps which then exercise the CHRE API. While this code is nominally integrated in another test suite, the source code is available under java/test/chqts/ for the Java side code and apps/test/chqts/ for the CHQTS-only nanoapp code and apps/test/common/ for the nanoapp code shared by CHQTS and other test suites.