Can I integrate Arduino in a CI/CD setup?

Question

While it seems less valuable to emulate Arduino in a CI/CD setup, are there any experiences/best practices for collaborative teams to automate their acceptance tests where a real Arduino is integrated into a CI/CD toolchain (or, what are comparable practices)?

Minimal example of acceptance testing:

• compilation is successful for a given compiler version.

• Majenko: Step one: Define what acceptance means in your project workflow.
• J. Doe: added a minimal example.
• Majenko: For that: run arduino-builder in a script run by a cron job.

Answer 1

There are different approaches around. I can only point you to some of them:

• GitLab CI approach A
• GitLab CI approach B
• Your specific solution: To build pipelines for Arduino (although its Azure) but you can use this technique on Linux with Jenkins

As a valuable commenter mentioned on your previous question - this does not cover the attached hardware testing (sensors/ motors) - this has to be "integrated" via a test lab station, which you have to control manually (or semi-automated via lab equipment) on defined release/version changes

• J. Doe: thank you so much @Codebreaker007! Trying out approach A to compile the controller code for an open source ventilator project :-)