Test Driven Robotics

Artoo makes it easy to do Test Driven Development (TDD) of your robotic devices using your favorite Ruby test and mocking frameworks.

Here is an example that uses Minitest, Mocha, and Timecop:

require './test_helper'
require './test_robot'

describe 'sphero' do
  let(:robot) { Artoo::MainRobot.new }
  let (:start) { Time.now }

  before :each do
    Timecop.travel(start)
    robot.work
  end

  after :each do
    Timecop.return
  end

  it 'has work to do every 3 seconds' do
    robot.has_work?(:every, 3.seconds).wont_be_nil
  end

  it 'receives collision event' do
    robot.expects(:contact)
    robot.sphero.publish("collision", "clunk")
    sleep 0.05
  end

  it 'must roll every 3 seconds' do
    Timecop.travel(start + 3.seconds) do
      robot.sphero.expects(:roll)
      sleep 0.05
    end
    Timecop.travel(start + 6.seconds) do
      robot.sphero.expects(:roll)
      sleep 0.05
    end
  end
end

to describe the following Sphero robot:

require 'artoo'

connection :sphero, :adaptor => :sphero, :port => '127.0.0.1:4560'
device :sphero, :driver => :sphero

def contact(*args)
  @contacts ||= 0
  @contacts += 1
  puts "Contact "
end

work do
  on sphero, :collision => :contact

  every(3.seconds) do
    sphero.roll 90, rand(360)
  end
end

The repo with full example of using Artoo for test driven robotics is located at https://github.com/hybridgroup/artoo-test-example .