ROS Quality Assurance Working Group meeting minutes April 2018 Meeting

[fkromer]

4. Testing
   1. Fuzzy testing by “chaos node” Low/Medium

I deployed the initial release of hypothesis-ros v0.1.0 on pypi. Refer to the package announcement:

Hypothesis-ros

As part of the efforts to improve the test infrastructure of ROS I implemented a Python package hypothesis-ros. It provides “strategies” (data generators) for ROS messages/parameters and allows to implement strategies for custom messages. These “strategies” can be used to apply property based testing on the ROS node/nodelet level. The package has Python dependencies only and is deployed on pypi (hypothesis-ros v0.1.0). A ROS release is on the TODO list. Documentation: The best documentation are …