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Package Summary

A self_test is a service call provided by a node that triggers a test of the driver and any associated hardware. This service call can be used by users to quickly verify that a device or process is working. Currently self-tests are mainly used with drivers, but nothing precludes non-driver nodes using them.

The self_test package contains tools to for calling the self-test service from the command-line, or from a regression test. It also provides a C++ API for facilitating writing of self-tests.

diagnostics: diagnostic_aggregator | diagnostic_analysis | diagnostic_updater | self_test

Package Summary

A self_test is a service call provided by a node that triggers a test of the driver and any associated hardware. This service call can be used by users to quickly verify that a device or process is working. Currently self-tests are mainly used with drivers, but nothing precludes non-driver nodes using them.

The self_test package contains tools to for calling the self-test service from the command-line, or from a regression test. It also provides a C++ API for facilitating writing of self-tests.

diagnostics: diagnostic_aggregator | diagnostic_analysis | diagnostic_updater | self_test

Package Summary

A self_test is a service call provided by a node that triggers a test of the driver and any associated hardware. This service call can be used by users to quickly verify that a device or process is working. Currently self-tests are mainly used with drivers, but nothing precludes non-driver nodes using them.

The self_test package contains tools to for calling the self-test service from the command-line, or from a regression test. It also provides a C++ API for facilitating writing of self-tests.

diagnostics: diagnostic_aggregator | diagnostic_analysis | diagnostic_common_diagnostics | diagnostic_updater | self_test

Package Summary

self_test

  • Maintainer status: maintained
  • Maintainer: Brice Rebsamen <brice.rebsamen AT gmail DOT com>
  • Author: Kevin Watts, Brice Rebsamen <brice.rebsamen AT gmail DOT com>, Jeremy Leibs and Blaise Gassend
  • License: BSD
  • Source: git https://github.com/ros/diagnostics.git (branch: groovy-devel)
diagnostics: diagnostic_aggregator | diagnostic_analysis | diagnostic_common_diagnostics | diagnostic_updater | self_test

Package Summary

self_test

  • Maintainer status: maintained
  • Maintainer: Brice Rebsamen <brice.rebsamen AT gmail DOT com>
  • Author: Kevin Watts, Brice Rebsamen <brice.rebsamen AT gmail DOT com>, Jeremy Leibs and Blaise Gassend
  • License: BSD
  • Source: git https://github.com/ros/diagnostics.git (branch: groovy-devel)
diagnostics: diagnostic_aggregator | diagnostic_analysis | diagnostic_common_diagnostics | diagnostic_updater | self_test

Package Summary

self_test

  • Maintainer status: maintained
  • Maintainer: Brice Rebsamen <brice.rebsamen AT gmail DOT com>, Austin Hendrix <namniart AT gmail DOT com>
  • Author: Kevin Watts, Brice Rebsamen <brice.rebsamen AT gmail DOT com>, Jeremy Leibs and Blaise Gassend
  • License: BSD
  • Source: git https://github.com/ros/diagnostics.git (branch: indigo-devel)
diagnostics: diagnostic_aggregator | diagnostic_analysis | diagnostic_common_diagnostics | diagnostic_updater | self_test

Package Summary

self_test

  • Maintainer status: maintained
  • Maintainer: Brice Rebsamen <brice.rebsamen AT gmail DOT com>, Austin Hendrix <namniart AT gmail DOT com>
  • Author: Kevin Watts, Brice Rebsamen <brice.rebsamen AT gmail DOT com>, Jeremy Leibs and Blaise Gassend
  • License: BSD
  • Source: git https://github.com/ros/diagnostics.git (branch: indigo-devel)
diagnostics: diagnostic_aggregator | diagnostic_analysis | diagnostic_common_diagnostics | diagnostic_updater | self_test

Package Summary

self_test

  • Maintainer status: maintained
  • Maintainer: Guglielmo Gemignani <guglielmo.gemignani AT gmail DOT com>, Austin Hendrix <namniart AT gmail DOT com>
  • Author: Kevin Watts, Brice Rebsamen <brice.rebsamen AT gmail DOT com>, Jeremy Leibs and Blaise Gassend
  • License: BSD
  • Source: git https://github.com/ros/diagnostics.git (branch: indigo-devel)
diagnostics: diagnostic_aggregator | diagnostic_analysis | diagnostic_common_diagnostics | diagnostic_updater | self_test

Package Summary

self_test

  • Maintainer status: maintained
  • Maintainer: Brice Rebsamen <brice.rebsamen AT gmail DOT com>, Austin Hendrix <namniart AT gmail DOT com>
  • Author: Kevin Watts, Brice Rebsamen <brice.rebsamen AT gmail DOT com>, Jeremy Leibs and Blaise Gassend
  • License: BSD
  • Source: git https://github.com/ros/diagnostics.git (branch: indigo-devel)
diagnostics: diagnostic_aggregator | diagnostic_analysis | diagnostic_common_diagnostics | diagnostic_updater | self_test

Package Summary

self_test

  • Maintainer status: maintained
  • Maintainer: Guglielmo Gemignani <guglielmo.gemignani AT gmail DOT com>, Austin Hendrix <namniart AT gmail DOT com>
  • Author: Kevin Watts, Brice Rebsamen <brice.rebsamen AT gmail DOT com>, Jeremy Leibs and Blaise Gassend
  • License: BSD
  • Source: git https://github.com/ros/diagnostics.git (branch: indigo-devel)

Running a Self-Test

You can get a list of the available subtests with the rosservice command:

$ rosservice list | grep "/self_test$"
/hokuyo_node/self_test

You can then run the self test using rosservice:

$ rosservice call /hokuyo_node/self_test

You can get different output with the deprecated run_selftest node:

$ rosrun self_test run_selftest /hokuyo_node/self_test

C++ API

The self_test::TestRunner class will advertise a service "~self_test". When called, it will perform a check on the node's connection status, and any other checks a developer wants to perform on a node or device.

An example use of the self_test package's API can be found in self_test/src/selftest_example.cpp.

Stability and Status

The documented C++ and ROS API should be considered stable.

self_test::TestRunner

self_test contains the self_test::TestRunner class that can be used to sequence a set of tests to be run in order to test a device. It advertises a self_test service. When the service is called, the self_test::TestRunner calls the tests that have been defined in order, and combines the results into a diagnostic_msgs/DiagnosticStatus array (see the service definition diagnostic_msgs/SelfTest). A detailed example can be found in self_test/src/selftest_example.cpp.

Nodes

selftest_rostest

A rostest that runs a self-test and reports success if the self-test passed.

Parameters

~node_to_test (string, default: "")
  • Name of the node to run the self-test on.
~max_delay (string, default: 60)
  • Maximum amount of time to wait for the self_test service to show up.

Wiki: self_test (last edited 2014-05-03 16:46:53 by PiotrOrzechowski)