The AWS IoT Device Tester download includes the source code for a sample test suite. You can complete this tutorial to build and run the sample test suite to understand how you can use AWS IoT Device Tester for FreeRTOS to run custom test suites. Although this tutorial uses SSH, it is useful to learn how to use AWS IoT Device Tester with FreeRTOS devices.
In this tutorial, you will complete the following steps:
To complete this tutorial, you need the following: +
Host computer requirements
-
Latest version of AWS IoT Device Tester
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Python 3.7 or later
To check the version of Python installed on your computer, run the following command:
python3 --version
On Windows, if using this command returns an error, then use
python --version
instead. If the returned version number is 3.7 or greater, then run the following command in a Powershell terminal to setpython3
as an alias for yourpython
command.Set-Alias -Name "python3" -Value "python"
If no version information is returned or if the version number is less than 3.7, follow the instructions in Downloading Python to install Python 3.7+. For more information, see the Python documentation.
-
To verify that
urllib3
is installed correctly, run the following command:python3 -c 'import urllib3'
If
urllib3
is not installed, run the following command to install it:python3 -m pip install urllib3
Device requirements
-
A device with a Linux operating system and a network connection to the same network as your host computer.
We recommend that you use a Raspberry Pi with Raspberry Pi OS. Make sure you set up SSH on your Raspberry Pi to remotely connect to it.
Configure your device information for IDT to run the test. You must update the device.json
template located in the <device-tester-extract-location>/configs
folder with the following information.
[
{
"id": "pool",
"sku": "N/A",
"devices": [
{
"id": "<device-id>",
"connectivity": {
"protocol": "ssh",
"ip": "<ip-address>",
"port": "<port>",
"auth": {
"method": "pki | password",
"credentials": {
"user": "<user-name>",
"privKeyPath": "/path/to/private/key",
"password": "<password>"
}
}
}
}
]
}
]
In the devices
object, provide the following information:
id
A user-defined unique identifier for your device.
connectivity.ip
The IP address of your device.
connectivity.port
Optional. The port number to use for SSH connections to your device.
connectivity.auth
Authentication information for the connection.
This property applies only if connectivity.protocol
is set to ssh
.
connectivity.auth.method
The authentication method used to access a device over the given connectivity protocol.
Supported values are:
pki
password
connectivity.auth.credentials
The credentials used for authentication.
connectivity.auth.credentials.user
The user name used to sign in to your device.
connectivity.auth.credentials.privKeyPath
The full path to the private key used to sign in to your device.
This value applies only ifconnectivity.auth.method
is set topki
.
devices.connectivity.auth.credentials.password
The password used for signing in to your device.
This value applies only ifconnectivity.auth.method
is set topassword
.
Note
Specify privKeyPath
only if method
is set to pki
.
Specify password
only if method
is set to password
.
The <device-tester-extract-location>/samples/python
folder contains sample configuration files, source code, and the IDT Client SDK that you can combine into a test suite using the provided build scripts. The following directory tree shows the location of these sample files:
<device-tester-extract-location>
├── ...
├── tests
├── samples
│ ├── ...
│ └── python
│ ├── configuration
│ ├── src
│ └── build-scripts
│ ├── build.sh
│ └── build.ps1
└── sdks
├── ...
└── python
└── idt_client
To build the test suite, run the following commands on your host computer:
cd <device-tester-extract-location>/samples/python/build-scripts
./build.ps1
cd <device-tester-extract-location>/samples/python/build-scripts
./build.sh
This creates the sample test suite in the IDTSampleSuitePython_1.0.0
folder within the <device-tester-extract-location>/tests
folder. Review the files in the IDTSampleSuitePython_1.0.0
folder to understand how the sample test suite is structured and see various examples of test case executables and test configuration files.
Next step: Use IDT to run the sample test suite that you created.
To run the sample test suite, run the following commands on your host computer:
cd <device-tester-extract-location>/bin
./devicetester_[linux | mac | win_x86-64] run-suite --suite-id IDTSampleSuitePython
IDT runs the sample test suite and streams the results to the console. When the test has finished running, you see the following information:
========== Test Summary ==========
Execution Time: 5s
Tests Completed: 4
Tests Passed: 4
Tests Failed: 0
Tests Skipped: 0
----------------------------------
Test Groups:
sample_group: PASSED
----------------------------------
Path to AWS IoT Device Tester Report: /path/to/devicetester/results/87e673c6-1226-11eb-9269-8c8590419f30/awsiotdevicetester_report.xml
Path to Test Execution Logs: /path/to/devicetester/results/87e673c6-1226-11eb-9269-8c8590419f30/logs
Path to Aggregated JUnit Report: /path/to/devicetester/results/87e673c6-1226-11eb-9269-8c8590419f30/IDTSampleSuitePython_Report.xml
Use the following information to help resolve any issues with completing the tutorial.
Test case does not run successfully
If the test does not run successfully, IDT streams the error logs to the console that can help you troubleshoot the test run. Make sure that you meet all the prerequisites for this tutorial.
Cannot connect to the device under test
Verify the following:
- Your
device.json
file contains the correct IP address, port, and authentication information. - You can connect to your device over SSH from your host computer.