ELC + ABS

Continuous Integration is a well understood and established practice for SW development, however it faces some fundamental problems, when applied to SW targeting many different platforms.

The only way to ensure support for each target platforms (both real HW and emulated) is to test it. And both deployment and testing of the SW must replicate closely what will happen in real life, barring gimmicks and workaround. Other important aspect is that the implementation must provide high scalability, so that developers can easily test their code prior to submitting it for continuous integration, on their local rigs, where possible, so that they can have direct access to the device under test.

The solution presented here uses off-the-shelf, inexpensive, HW components and confines platform-specific quirks to plugins that can be easily configured/extended, to support any platform.