Codethink - Long Term Maintainability articles

Outreachy internship: Improving end-to-end testing for GNOME

Fri 15 March 2024 - Sam Thursfield

Outreachy is an organisation providing open source internships to people who are subject to systemic bias and underrepresentation. Find out about the project we helped to run: "Improve end-to-end testing for GNOME"

Introducing Web UI QAnvas and new features of Quality Assurance Daemon

Thu 08 February 2024 - Mir Faisal Ahmed

Codethink's updates to the automated hardware testing tool Q.A.D. and introducing the interactive Web UI tool QAnvas.

Testing in a Box: Streamlining Embedded Systems Testing

Thu 23 November 2023 - Sam Bishop

Codethink has been developing a number of tools and processes in order to automate as much of the testing pipeline for embedded systems as possible.

SDV Europe: What Codethink has planned

Tue 14 November 2023 - Sham Zaman

Codethink is excited to announce its attendance at the upcoming SDV Europe conference in Berlin from November 26th to November 28th.

Automated Kernel Testing on RISC-V Hardware

Thu 21 September 2023 - Neill Whillans

Continuing our work on robust testing in support of long-term maintainability, we present a testing pipeline that makes use of both LAVA and OpenQA to perform automated kernel tests on RISC-V hardware.

Automated end-to-end testing for Android Automotive on Hardware

Thu 24 August 2023 - Laurence Urhegyi

Codethink has automated some end-to-end testing of Android Automotive on our public openQA instance.

GUADEC 2023

Fri 28 July 2023 - Eli Marston-Mooney

GUADEC 2023 has been another great event for the GNOME community.

Introducing Our New Open-Source Tool: Quality Assurance Daemon

Tue 25 April 2023 - Wenqing Zong, Joshua Zivkovic, Laurence Urhegyi, Sam Thursfield

Codethink's latest FOSS contribution in automated hardware testing. This article will talk about our recent tool named Q.A.D. and its impact on end-user blackbox hardware testing.

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Long Term Maintainability

Tue 18 April 2023 - Sam Thursfield

Once upon a time, you could design and build a device, flash a well-engineered firmware onto it and support it for 20 years, with minimal changes to the core software. Those days are over. A new approach is needed to provide long-term support for devices while managing the complexity of today’s embedded software stacks.

Think before you Pip

Fri 06 January 2023 - Sam Thursfield

The Python package archive PyPI is a hugely successful platform for sharing open source libraries and applications. In this article we'll provide some ideas on safely using PyPI, taking into account some recent malware attacks that were delivered via the platform.

BuildStream 2.0 is here, just in time for the holidays!

Fri 23 December 2022 - Javier Jardón

BuildStream 2.0 is finally here - with improved performance, remote execution support, and a host of new features.

GNOME OS & Atomic Upgrades on the PinePhone

Fri 16 September 2022 - Lawrence Hunter, Owen Park, Tanvir Roshid

GNOME OS and Atomic Upgrades on the PinePhone

FOSDEM Testing and Automation talk

Wed 02 February 2022 - LTM Team

Laurence Urhegyi and James Thomas will be giving the talk "Automated and continuous system testing with Lava and OpenQA"

Protecting your project from dependency access problems

Wed 26 January 2022 - Kyle Mckay, Ellis Barnwell

The problem with introducing these dependencies, is that part of your project now exists outside of your control.

Automated Linux kernel testing

Tue 21 September 2021 - Neill Whillans, Laurence Urhegyi

Everyone wants the same thing: stable software for the long term, including the latest features. To achieve this, you need to have confidence in your software and in the software you depend on, which has to come from testing.

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Higher quality of FOSS: How we are helping GNOME to improve their test pipeline

Thu 12 August 2021 - Sam Thursfield

High quality releases require high quality testing infrastructure. To show how deep OS and GUI testing can be done, let's look at the OpenQA instance we helped set up for GNOME.

Why aligning with open source mainline is the way to go

Thu 17 June 2021 - Neill Whillans

You’ve made a choice to use open-source software as part of your product release. That’s a great start. Open-source software projects usually have large contributing communities that help improve the software’s quality and functionality over time.

Build Meetup 2021: The BuildTeam Community Event

Fri 11 June 2021 - Nicole Mpofu

For the last few months, the BuildTeam Community has been organising a meetup to gather like-minded community members to discuss, share and exchange innovations and relevant topics and systems in build.

Why your organisation needs to embrace working in the open-source ecosystem

Tue 27 April 2021 - Laurence Urhegyi

Consuming open-source is only the start of the journey for many companies. Whether by design or necessity, organisations find themselves adapting from being simply open-source consumers to being full-fledged producers, contributors and maintainers, eventually working in public, following ‘open by default and ‘upstream first’ principles.

Building the abseil-hello Bazel project for a different architecture using a dynamically generated toolchain

Tue 15 December 2020 - Darius Makovsky

Bazel and BuildStream are tools which are commonly used to organize and delegate the building of software. There are a few key differences between them but largely they are concerned with the same development problems.

Consuming BuildStream projects in Bazel: the bazelize plugin

Tue 09 June 2020 - Darius Makovsky

Buildstream projects can easily be consumed by Bazel projects by use of a bazelize element, offering greater flexibility and an easier path to integrating third party dependencies

Creating a Build toolkit using the Remote Execution API

Thu 28 May 2020 - Chris Phang

Building and testing at scale often involves codebases with millions of lines of code, worked upon by thousands of developers. One solution to the problem of building as quickly as possible is simply delegating that responsibility — not to the machine that the developer is working on, or even to a server that the CI job has been dispatched to, but to a server farm...

The Case For Open Source Software In The Medical Industry

Thu 21 May 2020 - Chris Doocey

Medical Devices are utilising software more than ever before. Recent challenges from COVID-19 have outlined some of the great benefits of utilising open source within the Medical industry. Chris looks at the benefits Open Source Software and projects could bring to the industry, as well as potential drawbacks of implementing an open-source initiative

Using the REAPI for Distributed Builds

Wed 14 August 2019 - Santiago Gil

As mentioned in the first part of this article, An Introduction to Distributed Builds and Remote Execution, there is no single solution to the problem of building software in a distributed manner. This description will focus on a solution based on the Remote Execution API.

An Introduction to Remote Execution and Distributed Builds

Wed 07 August 2019 - Santiago Gil

Building software

Part of creating software involves translating source code into instructions that can be executed by hardware and packaging the results in a way that can be consumed by users. That process is known as building (although colloquially it sometimes can be referred to as compiling).

For small programs …

Visualising the Software Integration process for whole systems

Sat 23 April 2016 - Paul Sherwood

Over the last few years Codethink has been helping a series of customers understand and manage the scale and complexity of their software integration pipelines. We've seen and tried various approaches to visualise what's happening, but many projects end up falling back to some combination of:

architecture diagrams
data models …

Articles with tag 'Long Term Maintainability'