[poky] XML test runner, or how to override Poky's python code

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2019-04-18 at 06:31 +0000, Mardegan, Alberto wrote:
> Hi there!
>   Since Yocto "thud", the test suite no longer supports outputting
> the
> test report in XML format.
> 
> While I'm not especially fond of that format, it had one feature
> which
> was quite important for our further processing of test results: the
> stdout from the test was captured and included in the test report
> (now
> the JSON test report only contains the stdout and stderr for the
> failing
> tests).
> 
> Is it possible from a layer to alter the implementation of the
> OETestRunner, so that the bitbake testimage command would behave the
> way
> we want to?

Its certainly possible to alter pretty much any of the code but it
would probably involve duplication which would be ugly. A better way
may be to send patches which optionally allow the test output to be
stored in the json output based upon configuration?

Cheers,

Richard