Alvaro Martinez Landete: "Production Test Suite Framework as testing platform"

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Validation, characterization, and testing of custom electronics are critical throughout their entire lifecycle, from early prototypes to final products for CERN. These tests allow us to plan maintenance, schedule interventions and ensure hardware will perform as expected. In the past, this has been addressed by developing specifically tailored, dedicated, test routines for each device under test. While solving short-term needs, this approach presents significant long-term challenges such as maintenance, inconsistent documentation, and a lack of standardization across projects and versions.

A new, unified Production Test Suite (PTS) Framework has been developed to address these shortcomings and formalize the test workflow. The framework is designed to separate the test logic from the sequencing infrastructure. It provides developers with a standardized, hardware-agnostic interface for test execution, a consistent graphical user interface for operators, and automated, easily parsable reporting. This approach significantly reduces development time and improves the long-term maintainability and comparability of test results across all development phases.

This talk will present the challenges that motivated the framework's creation and demonstrate how it helps the ATS community validate custom electronics. It will cover the status of the project, including its recent open-source release and initial adoption in active projects, and discuss the future roadmap for its development and community engagement.