Wednesday 11 November 2015

Firmware Test Suite in active development

Another month passes and another release of the Firmware Test Suite is being prepared.  The tool has been growing in functionality (and size!) over time, so I thought I would look at some statistics to see any trends.

There has been a steady growth of the number of authors sending patches to the Firmware Test Suite.  Community contributions to a project is a sign that we have buy-in from different parties, so I'm pleased to see contributions from Intel, Linaro and Redhat.   Patches are always welcome, send them to fwts-devel@ubuntu.com for review and inclusion into the project.

The number of commits is one metric to see if the project is growing healthily. We're adding about 35 patches a month, about 3/4 of which is added functionality, the rest are fixes and general code maintenance.

One more meaningless but interesting metric is code size. I used sloccount to count the lines of C in the project.  We're seeing ~2200 lines of code being added per month, mainly through added test functionality.
Kudos to the Canonical Hardware Enablement firmware folk for wrangling the patches and preparing each FWTS release.

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