Glossary¶

Warning

This project is still evolving, so these docs may be incomplete or out-of-date.

Acronyms¶

exporter: A linux service that exports the interfaces to the DUTs. An exporter connects directly to a Jumpstarter server or directly to a client.
client: A Developer or a CI/CD pipeline that connects to the Jumpstarter server and leases exporters. The client can run tests on the leased resources.
controller: The central service that authenticates and connects the exporters and clients, manages leases and provides an inventory of available exporters and clients.

Device: a device that is exposed on a exporter, the exporter enumerates those devices and makes them available for use in tests. Examples of resources can be:
- network interface
- serial port
- GPIO pin
- Storage device (USB Muxer, SD-Wire, etc.)
- a CAN bus interface
Lease: a time limited reservation of a exporter, a lease is created by a client and allows the client to use the exporter resources for a limited time.
driver class: is the name of the driver class that is used to interact with the exporter resources.
driver client class: is the name of the driver client class that is used directly by end users, it interacts with DriverClass remotely via remote procedure call to invoke DriverClass provided methods, which in turn interacts with the exporter resources.
driver: is the name for driver class and the corresponding driver client class, not to be confused with Driver, the base class of all driver class. Drivers in the main jumpstarter repo are called in-tree drivers, otherwise called out-of-tree drivers. Drivers implementing predefined interfaces are called standard drivers, otherwise called custom drivers.