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WA2 Extensions had two features that have proven more trouble then they are worth, and so they were removed from WA3 Plugins: - Virtual methods (methods that automatically invoked super's version without having to explicitly do that). - It used to be possible to use strings or tuples to specify parameters for extensions, and those were automatically "promoted" to Parameter instances by the metaclass. This feature was never actually used. This commit cleans up residual code for these features from Plugin implementations and removes tests that used to exercise them.
Workload Automation
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Workload Automation (WA) is a framework for executing workloads and collecting
measurements on Android and Linux devices. WA includes automation for nearly 50
workloads (mostly Android), some common instrumentation (ftrace, ARM
Streamline, hwmon). A number of output formats are supported.
Workload Automation is designed primarily as a developer tool/framework to
facilitate data driven development by providing a method of collecting
measurements from a device in a repeatable way.
Workload Automation is highly extensible. Most of the concrete functionality is
implemented via plug-ins, and it is easy to write new plug-ins to support new
device types, workloads, instrumentation or output processing.
Requirements
============
- Python 2.7
- Linux (should work on other Unixes, but untested)
- Latest Android SDK (ANDROID_HOME must be set) for Android devices, or
- SSH for Linux devices
Installation
============
To install::
python setup.py sdist
sudo pip install dist/wlauto-*.tar.gz
Please refer to the `installation section <./doc/source/installation.rst>`_
in the documentation for more details.
Basic Usage
===========
Please see the `Quickstart <./doc/source/quickstart.rst>`_ section of the
documentation.
Documentation
=============
You can view pre-built HTML documentation `here <http://pythonhosted.org/wlauto/>`_.
Documentation in reStructuredText format may be found under ``doc/source``. To
compile it into cross-linked HTML, make sure you have `Sphinx
<http://sphinx-doc.org/install.html>`_ installed, and then ::
cd doc
make html
License
=======
Workload Automation is distributed under `Apache v2.0 License
<http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>`_. Workload automation includes
binaries distributed under differnt licenses (see LICENSE files in specfic
directories).
Feedback, Contrubutions and Support
===================================
- Please use the GitHub Issue Tracker associated with this repository for
feedback.
- ARM licensees may contact ARM directly via their partner managers.
- We welcome code contributions via GitHub Pull requests. Please see
"Contributing Code" section of the documentation for details.