Hi Shuah,
We can do this as a separate effort in the interest of getting these in the interest of getting these in.
We have common functions in ksefltest.h for c and we don't have them for tests scripts. We might be able to collect common routines such as get_kconfig into a common .sh and include in tests. If you have time to do this, that will be great. It can be done as a separate effort.
Some inspiration, what sort of helpers can be for shell see LTP shell API [1]. These helpers tests help tests to be short, readable and with unified output. (I like library variables [2] which are self describing and making test even shorter), setup and cleanup functions called automatically, ... The same applies for C API [3] (e.g. SAFE_*() helpers for handling errors, ...).
I wonder if there is even any interest of having any sort of helpers or even framework for shell, when so far there was nothing.
thanks, -- Shuah
Kind regards, Petr
[1] https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/Test-Writing-Guidelines#23-wr... [2] https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/Test-Writing-Guidelines#232-l... [3] https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/Test-Writing-Guidelines#22-wr...