Autobuilder

Autobuilder is the project responsible for QA, and a testing build is available inside the Yocto Project. It is based on the BuildBot project. Although this topic isn't dealt with in this book, for those of you interested in the BuildBot project, you can find more information about it in the following information box.

Note

The starting page of Buildbot can be accssed at http://trac.buildbot.net/. You can find a guide on quick starting BuildBot at http://docs.buildbot.net/0.8.5/tutorial/tour.html, and its concepts can be found at http://docs.buildbot.net/latest/manual/concepts.html.

We are now going to address a software area that is very poorly treated by developers in general. Here, I am referring to the testing and quality assurance of a development process. This is, in fact, an area that requires more attention from us, including me as well. The Yocto Project through the AutoBuilder initiative tries to bring more attention to this area. Also, in the past few years, there has...