Graphics Output Protocol (GOP) Validation Automation

Abstract

Graphics output is important in the pre-boot space to support modern firmware features. These features include the display of logos, the localization of output to any language, and setup and configuration screens. Graphics output may also be required as part of the start up of an operating system. There are potentially times in modern operating systems prior to the loading of a high performance Operating System (OS) graphics driver where access to graphics output device is required. The Graphics Output Protocol supports this capability by providing the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) OS loader access to a hardware frame buffer and enough information to allow the OS to draw directly to the graphics output device. Validation of such protocol will require large amount of tests to be executed on them. The automation of these tests will effectively reduce the time required in Validation phase of the Product Development Life-Cycle and man power. In this Project efforts are made to reduce the resources requirement and human intervention, and reduction in human intervention will cause great reduction in execution time, because normal execution of such tests approximately takes a day while the automation can complete that execution in approximately 2 hours, here the whole execution will be managed and supervised by validation server so human Involvement is not at all required.