New Contiki OS Network Regression Test Framework

An anonymous reader writes "Contiki, the open source operating system for the Internet of Things, just got a regression test framework ported over from Thingsquare Mist that allows the Contiki developers to test the entire system on 9 platforms, 4 CPU architectures, and 1021 network nodes, for every new commit."

Internet of Things

[kc67]

Very descriptive term for an operating system. Ubuntu should be the open source operating system for the Purchasing of Things.

Pity they dropped the only architecture I was inte

[marcovje]

Pity they dropped the only architecture I was interested in

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[Trixter]

16-bit x86 :-(

Contiki is still around?

[ickleberry]

I had the misfortune of having to use it last year on a tmote sky. Nearly every piece of hardware it supports is obsolete, also the API is incredibly poorly documented. Most of their documentation consists of functions listed with no description. Gah!!

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[Big Hairy Ian]

Welcome to MSDN :)

Why C?

[angel'o'sphere]

I find it pretty weired that they use C instead of a well defined subset of C++ for a modern framework.

I really doubt that from an academic stanpoint the term framework even applies, it looks like a set of APIs and libraries to me. Or does the linux kernel quallify as a framework, too?

Anyway I don't use frameworks/libraries/languages that are neither oo nor functional, my time is me to valuable.

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[hakey]

It's designed to run on microcontrollers with kilobytes of RAM. C++ and OO are possible, but C tends to fit better.

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[Big Hairy Ian]

Anyway I don't use frameworks/libraries/languages that are neither oo nor functional, my time is me to valuable.

Not functional??? Have you ever even programmed in C?

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[angel'o'sphere]

Yes I have, and your question simply shows you don't know what "functional" means.

Hint: go to wikipedia and look for "functional programming language", you won't find C there.