OreSat FlatHILS

The Hardware-in-the-Loop testing software infrastructure for OreSat.

Overview

OreSat FlatHILS is a software-based testing orchestrator platform for the Portland State Aerospace Society (PSAS) CubeSat called OreSat -- Oregon's First Satellite.

Up and Running

1. Spin up a Python virtual environment.

   python -m venv .venv
   source .venv/bin/activate

2. Install project dependencies inside the newly-active virtual environment

   python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
   python -m pip install -e .

3. When you are done developing, deactivate the virtual environment.

   deactivate

CLI

flathils cli can be invoked to list the available options using the following command.

flathils -h

Running Test Harnesses

A "test harness" is a collection of configuration and tests for the OreSat satellite subject under test (SUT). An example harness is provided to demonstrate the structure of a test harness and can be run witht he following command.

flathils test --harness example-harness

Tests

This project uses Pytest. To run this software's test suite:

pytest tests/