Automatização de Testes de Regressão para Verificação de Versões de Produtos ASIC

• Autor(a) principal: Dias, Francisco José Albuquerque
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/23418
• topic: Automation; Regression Testing; Application-Specific Integrated Circuit; Continuous Integration; Continuous Deployment

In the technological industry, performing tests on developed products is a crucial step in ensuring their quality before delivering them to any possible clients. Should a small mistake or bug get through the testing phase, it could create the potential for disastrous consequences waiting to happen. Regression tests are among these tests that must be performed, with the goal of guaranteeing the correct functioning of new features, while assuring recent features do not compromise previous development. Some of the major downsides to these tests, however, is the extensive amount of time required to perform them, and the fact that most of them have to be run manually. This entails a high cost, both in the duration of the execution as well as the person-hours that have to be invested into this process. Additionally, users must also clean up the disks used for regressions frequently, and this may cause important information to be lost if it is not tracked. In the context of this project, the regression testing is being performed on designs created using SystemVerilog. This thesis aims to present and document an approach taken to resolve this issue, via the automation of the testing flow by using Continuous Integration and Continuous Development tools. The system that was constructed takes into consideration the varied desires of its users, presenting a high level of configuration in order to facilitate this process, regardless of the projects utilized with it. It presents a novel approach on how to make use of automation tools to improve the process of regression testing, whilst also implementing new useful features for the team responsible for this process.