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diff --git a/user/testing/simulation.rst b/user/testing/simulation.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..865673f --- /dev/null +++ b/user/testing/simulation.rst @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +.. comment SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 + +.. comment: Copyright (c) 2018 Chris Johns <chrisj@rtems.org> +.. comment: All rights reserved. + +Simulation +---------- +.. index:: Simulation, Testing + +Simulation is a important regression and development tool for RTEMS. Developers +use simulation to work on core parts of RTEMS as it provides excellent +debugging supporting. Simulation run via the RTEMS Tester allows a test to run +on each core of your testing host machine lower the time to run all tests. + +.. _fig-tester-simulation: + +.. figure:: ../../images/user/test-simulation.png + :width: 30% + :alt: RTEMS Tester Simulation + :figclass: align-center + + RTEMS Tester Simulation + +The :ref:`fig-tester-simulation` figure shows the structure of RTEMS Testing +using simulation. The executables are built and the ``rtems-test`` command is +run from the top of the build directory. The RTEMS Tester executes the +BSP specific simulator for each test capturing the output |