See also: ApexAI/apex_rostest#18

We plan to integrate the work done in https://github.com/ApexAI/apex_rostest into this repository and at the same time separate the ROS specific components of launch into a new separate repository (https://github.com/ros2/launch_ros).

This is the planned layout:

• repository ros2/launch:
  • package launch
  • package launch_testing
    • will be combined with the package apex_launchtest from the repository ApexAI/apex_rostest
    • will also contain a CLI for running tests, name is TBD
  • package launch_testing_ament_cmake (new)
    • will be based on the package apex_launchtest_cmake from the repository ApexAI/apex_rostest
    • will provide cmake integration like add_launch_test(...) (name TDB) which implicitly calls the test runner rather than pytest
      • in the future may optionally invoke pytest instead (still working on integration)
    • will depend on the package launch_testing
• repository ros2/launch_ros (new)
  • package launch_ros
  • package test_launch_ros
  • package ros2launch
  • package launch_ros_testing (new)
    • will be based on the package apex_launchtest_ros from the repository ApexAI/apex_rostest
    • also, may be based on the launch_testing package in ros2/launch repository as well (depends on what we find)
• repository ros2/rostest (new)
  • package rostest (new)
    • will contain a placeholder CLI called rostest (or ros2 test?) which will alias to the CLI in launch_testing
      • will allow for future ROS specific options for manual test running
    • may contain cmake macros like add_rostest(...) to allow for future ROS specific integration
    • will serve as the "single point of entry" for ROS 2 users, i.e. they will <test_depend>rostest</test_depend>
    • will contain high level documentation and examples

Action items:

• Import ApexAI/apex_rostest into ros2/launch @wjwwood
  • Import code to sub folder called apex_rostest
  • Add apex_rostest/AMENT_IGNORE to prevent them from getting picked up by CI
  • open pull request to this repository Import apex rostest #209
• Separate ROS and ROS agnostic code
  • create ros2/launch_ros @wjwwood
  • create first pr on that repository with all history from this repository @wjwwood (remove ros-agnostic packages which should not be imported from launch launch_ros#1)
    • delete packages that are not ros specific
  • create pr on this repository removing ros specific packages @wjwwood (remove ROS specific launch packages which were moved to ros2/launch_ros #211)
  • update ros2.repos on ros2/ros2 @hidmic (Add ros2/launch_ros repository to ros2.repos ros2#676)
  • send announcement to discourse (people will need to update their ros2.repos files) @hidmic
  • migrate issues and pull requests from ros2/launch to ros2/launch_ros as needed @hidmic
• Integrate imported ApexAI/apex_rostest code @hidmic
  • create pr for this repository which: (Merge apex_launchtest functionality into launch_testing #215)
    • merges code from apex_rostest/apex_launchtest into launch_testing
    • creates launch_testing_ament_cmake and merges code from apex_rostest/apex_launchtest_cmake
  • create pr for ros2/launch_ros which: (Merge apex_launchtest_ros functionality into launch_testing_ros launch_ros#8)
    • creates launch_ros_testing and merges code from apex_rostest/apex_launchtest_ros
  • create pr's to convert existing tests to use new apex_rostest based code
    • care should be given to preserve Copyright statements and code attribution
    • Merge apex_launchtest functionality into launch_testing #215
    • Merge apex_launchtest_ros functionality into launch_testing_ros launch_ros#8
    • Migrate launch tests to new launch_testing features & API system_tests#340
    • Migrate launch tests to new launch_testing features & API rcl#405
    • Migrate launch tests to new launch_testing features & API demos#318
    • Migrate launch tests to new launch_testing features & API rcutils#140
    • Migrate launch tests to new launch_testing features & API ros1_bridge#179
• Create ros2/rostest @hidmic
  • create repository ros2/rostest
  • create rostest package and add to it: (Add ros_testing metapackage and ros2test CLI package ros_testing#1)
    • CLI for running tests locally (may be just alias to CLI in launch_testing)
    • documentation for ROS 2 users on how to write and run "ROS tests"

Connected to #161.