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What's New in Workload Automation
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Version 3.2
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.. warning:: This release only supports Python 3.5+. Python 2 support has now
been dropped.
Fixes/Improvements
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Framework:
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- ``TargetInfo`` now tracks installed modules and will ensure the cache is
also updated on module change.
- Migrated the build scripts for uiauto based workloads to Python 3.
- Uiauto applications now target SDK version 28 to prevent PlayProtect
blocking the installation of the automation apks on some devices.
- The workload metadata now includes the apk package name if applicable.
Instruments:
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- ``energy_instruments`` will now have their ``teardown`` method called
correctly.
- ``energy_instruments``: Added a ``keep_raw`` parameter to control whether
raw files generated during execution should be deleted upon teardown.
- Update relevant instruments to make use of the new devlib collector
interface, for more information please see the
`devlib documentation <https://devlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/collectors.html>`_.
Output Processors:
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- ``postgres``: If initialisation fails then the output processor will no
longer attempt to reconnect at a later point during the run.
- ``postgres``: Will now ensure that the connection to the database is
re-established if it is dropped e.g. due to a long expecting workload.
- ``postgres``: Change the type of the ``hostid`` field to ``Bigint`` to
allow a larger range of ids.
- ``postgres``: Bump schema version to 1.5.
- ``perf``: Added support for the ``simpleperf`` profiling tool for android
devices.
- ``perf``: Added support for the perf ``record`` command.
- ``cpustates``: Improve handling of situations where cpufreq and/or cpuinfo
data is unavailable.
Workloads:
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- ``adodereader``: Now support apk version 19.7.1.10709.
- ``antutu``: Supports dismissing of popup asking to create a shortcut on
the homescreen.
- ``gmail``: Now supports apk version 2019.05.26.252424914.
- ``googlemaps``: Now supports apk version 10.19.1.
- ``googlephotos``: Now supports apk version 4.28.0.
- ``geekbench``: Added support for versions 4.3.4, 4.4.0 and 4.4.2.
- ``geekbench-corporate``: Added support for versions 5.0.1 and 5.0.3.
- ``pcmark``: Now locks device orientation to portrait to increase
compatibility.
- ``pcmark``: Supports dismissing new Android 10 permission warnings.
Other:
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- Improve documentation to help debugging module installation errors.
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Version 3.1.4
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.. warning:: This is the last release that supports Python 2. Subsequent versions
will be support Python 3.5+ only.
New Features:
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Framework:
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- ``ApkWorkload``: Allow specifying A maximum and minimum version of an APK
instead of requiring a specific version.
- ``TestPackageHandler``: Added to support running android applications that
are invoked via ``am instrument``.
- Directories can now be added as ``Artifacts``.
Workloads:
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- ``aitutu``: Executes the Aitutu Image Speed/Accuracy and Object
Speed/Accuracy tests.
- ``uibench``: Run a configurable activity of the UIBench workload suite.
- ``uibenchjanktests``: Run an automated and instrument version of the
UIBench JankTests.
- ``motionmark``: Run a browser graphical benchmark.
Other:
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- Added ``requirements.txt`` as a reference for known working package versions.
Fixes/Improvements
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Framework:
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- ``JobOuput``: Added an ``augmentation`` attribute to allow listing of
enabled augmentations for individual jobs.
- Better error handling for misconfiguration job selection.
- All ``Workload`` classes now have an ``uninstall`` parameter to control whether
any binaries installed to the target should be uninstalled again once the
run has completed.
- The ``cleanup_assets`` parameter is now more consistently utilized across
workloads.
- ``ApkWorkload``: Added an ``activity`` attribute to allow for overriding the
automatically detected version from the APK.
- ``ApkWorkload`` Added support for providing an implicit activity path.
- Fixed retrieving job level artifacts from a database backend.
Output Processors:
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- ``SysfsExtractor``: Ensure that the extracted directories are added as
``Artifacts``.
- ``InterruptStatsInstrument``: Ensure that the output files are added as
``Artifacts``.
- ``Postgres``: Fix missing ``system_id`` field from ``TargetInfo``.
- ``Postgres``: Support uploading directory ``Artifacts``.
- ``Postgres``: Bump the schema version to v1.3.
Workloads:
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- ``geekbench``: Improved apk version handling.
- ``geekbench``: Now supports apk version 4.3.2.
Other:
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- ``Dockerfile``: Now installs all optional extras for use with WA.
- Fixed support for YAML anchors.
- Fixed building of documentation with Python 3.
- Changed shorthand of installing all of WA extras to `all` as per
the documentation.
- Upgraded the Dockerfile to use Ubuntu 18.10 and Python 3.
- Restricted maximum versions of ``numpy`` and ``pandas`` for Python 2.7.
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Version 3.1.3
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Fixes/Improvements
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Other:
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- Security update for PyYAML to attempt prevention of arbitrary code execution
during parsing.
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Version 3.1.2
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Fixes/Improvements
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Framework:
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- Implement an explicit check for Devlib versions to ensure that versions
are kept in sync with each other.
- Added a ``View`` parameter to ApkWorkloads for use with certain instruments
for example ``fps``.
- Added ``"supported_versions"`` attribute to workloads to allow specifying a
list of supported version for a particular workload.
- Change default behaviour to run any available version of a workload if a
specific version is not specified.
Output Processors:
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- ``Postgres``: Fix handling of ``screen_resoultion`` during processing.
Other
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- Added additional information to documentation
- Added fix for Devlib's ``KernelConfig`` refactor
- Added a ``"label"`` property to ``Metrics``
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Version 3.1.1
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Fixes/Improvements
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Other
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- Improve formatting when displaying metrics
- Update revent binaries to include latest fixes
- Update DockerImage to use new released version of WA and Devlib
- Fix broken package on PyPi
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Version 3.1.0
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New Features:
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Commands
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- ``create database``: Added :ref:`create subcommand <create-command>`
command in order to initialize a PostgresSQL database to allow for storing
WA output with the Postgres Output Processor.
Output Processors:
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- ``Postgres``: Added output processor which can be used to populate a
Postgres database with the output generated from a WA run.
- ``logcat-regex``: Add new output processor to extract arbitrary "key"
"value" pairs from logcat.
Configuration:
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- :ref:`Configuration Includes <config-include>`: Add support for including
other YAML files inside agendas and config files using ``"include#:"``
entries.
- :ref:`Section groups <section-groups>`: This allows for a ``group`` entry
to be specified for each section and will automatically cross product the
relevant sections with sections from other groups adding the relevant
classifiers.
Framework:
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- Added support for using the :ref:`OutputAPI <output_processing_api>` with a
Postgres Database backend. Used to retrieve and
:ref:`process <processing_output>` run data uploaded by the ``Postgres``
output processor.
Workloads:
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- ``gfxbench-corporate``: Execute a set of on and offscreen graphical benchmarks from
GFXBench including Car Chase and Manhattan.
- ``glbench``: Measures the graphics performance of Android devices by
testing the underlying OpenGL (ES) implementation.
Fixes/Improvements
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Framework:
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- Remove quotes from ``sudo_cmd`` parameter default value due to changes in
devlib.
- Various Python 3 related fixes.
- Ensure plugin names are converted to identifiers internally to act more
consistently when dealing with names containing ``-``'s etc.
- Now correctly updates RunInfo with project and run name information.
- Add versioning support for POD structures with the ability to
automatically update data structures / formats to new versions.
Commands:
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- Fix revent target initialization.
- Fix revent argument validation.
Workloads:
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- ``Speedometer``: Close open tabs upon workload completion.
- ``jankbench``: Ensure that the logcat monitor thread is terminated
correctly to prevent left over adb processes.
- UiAutomator workloads are now able to dismiss android warning that a
workload has not been designed for the latest version of android.
Other:
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- Report additional metadata about target, including: system_id,
page_size_kb.
- Uses cache directory to reduce target calls, e.g. will now use cached
version of TargetInfo if local copy is found.
- Update recommended :ref:`installation <github>` commands when installing from
github due to pip not following dependency links correctly.
- Fix incorrect parameter names in runtime parameter documentation.
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Version 3.0.0
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WA3 is a more or less from-scratch re-write of WA2. We have attempted to
maintain configuration-level compatibility wherever possible (so WA2 agendas
*should* mostly work with WA3), however some breaks are likely and minor tweaks
may be needed.
It terms of the API, WA3 is completely different, and WA2 extensions **will not
work** with WA3 -- they would need to be ported into WA3 plugins.
For more information on migrating from WA2 to WA3 please see the
:ref:`migration-guide`.
Not all of WA2 extensions have been ported for the initial 3.0.0 release. We
have ported the ones we believe to be most widely used and useful. The porting
work will continue, and more of WA2's extensions will be in the future releases.
However, we do not intend to port absolutely everything, as some things we
believe to be no longer useful.
.. note:: If there a particular WA2 extension you would like to see in WA3 that
is not yet there, please let us know via the GitHub issues. (And, of
course, we always welcome pull requests, if you have the time to
do the port yourselves :-) ).
New Features
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- Python 3 support. WA now runs on both Python 2 and Python 3.
.. warning:: Python 2 support should now be considered deprecated. Python 2
will still be fully supported up to the next major release
(v3.1). After that, Python 2 will be supported for existing
functionality, however there will be no guarantee that newly
added functionality would be compatible with Python 2. Support
for Python 2 will be dropped completely after release v3.2.
- There is a new Output API which can be used to aid in post processing a
run's output. For more information please see :ref:`output_processing_api`.
- All "augmentations" can now be enabled on a per workload basis (in WA2 this
was available for instruments, but not result processors).
- More portable runtime parameter specification. Runtime parameters now support
generic aliases, so instead of specifying ``a73_frequency: 1805000`` in your
agenda, and then having to modify this for another target, it is now possible
to specify ``big_frequency: max``.
- ``-c`` option can now be used multiple times to specify several config files
for a single run, allowing for a more fine-grained configuration management.
- It is now possible to disable all previously configured augmentations from an
agenda using ``~~``.
- Offline output processing with ``wa process`` command. It is now possible to
run processors on previously collected WA results, without the need for a
target connection.
- A lot more metadata is collected as part of the run, including much more
detailed information about the target, and MD5 hashes of all resources used
during the run.
- Better ``show`` command. ``wa show`` command now utilizes ``pandoc`` and
``man`` to produce easier-to-browse documentation format, and has been
enhanced to include documentation on general settings, runtime parameters, and
plugin aliases.
- Better logging. The default ``stdout`` output is now more informative.
The verbose output is much more detailed. Nested indentation is used for
different phases of execution to make log output easier to parse visually.
- Full ``ChromeOS`` target support. Including support for the Android container
apps.
- Implemented on top of devlib_. WA3 plugins can make use of devlib's enhanced
target API (much richer and more robust than WA2's Device API).
- All-new documentation. The docs have been revamped to be more useful and
complete.
.. _devlib: https://github.com/ARM-software/devlib
Changes
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- Configuration files ``config.py`` are now specified in YAML format in
``config.yaml``. WA3 has support for automatic conversion of the default
config file and will be performed upon first invocation of WA3.
- The "config" and "global" sections in an agenda are now interchangeable so can
all be specified in a "config" section.
- "Results Processors" are now known as "Output Processors" and can now be ran
offline.
- "Instrumentation" is now known as "Instruments" for more consistent naming.
- Both "Output Processor" and "Instrument" configuration have been merged into
"Augmentations" (support for the old naming schemes have been retained for
backwards compatibility)