[alsa-devel] Alsa conformance test - a new test for ALSA drivers

[Takashi Iwai]

On Wed, 04 Sep 2019 06:29:30 +0200,
Yu-Hsuan Hsu wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have created an new tool "Alsa conformance test"(
> https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/audiotest/+/master/alsa_conformance_test.md),
> which is used for verifying ALSA drivers. Here are some main functions it
> can measure:
> 1. Correctness of hw_params
> 2. Stability of rate
> 3. Stability of step
> 4. Runtime of each ALSA API
> 5. Underrun and Overrun
> 
> I recommend to use the script "alsa_conformance_test.py" inside. Just give
> it a device and then it will test the below functions automatically.
> 1. To make sure whether all the parameters provided by an ALSA driver can
> be used.
> 2. To make sure whether the measured rate is the same as the expected rate.
> 
> We have used this tool to find out many issues in ChromeOS. I hope it can
> help development in Linux too. If you have any problems or want more
> features, please create a bug in crbug.com and assign to me (
> yuhsuan at chromium.org). Thanks!

Great, it's something I wanted to see for long time.
Let us know if you'd like to put this to ALSA upstream.


thanks,

Takashi