Automating Networking and USB Testing of Platform Integration for Server Based on Xeon Processor

Abstract

With high demands for data and processing power, the server industries are pro- liferating daily. Intel is the leader of server chip in the market by having more than 95% of market share. Apart from high processing speed and low power consumption, Intel promises the quality assured to its customer and that assurance is given by thorough testing of boards. Manually Testing can be erroneous because of human error so automation is a way to overcome it. Automation at Intel in Platform Inte- gration and Development group was done through a dedicated component (Control Box) and a server host previously. Also, this can be done through a small board like Intel Next Unit of Computing, Arduino but among all Raspberry Pi is favorable as compared to using Control Box and a server host. It also decreases the overall cost and due to large support of the library, it becomes easy to implement it. So far the automation setup has been implemented on Raspberry Pi and Relay panels and the results are good and have the accuracy around 85-90% as compared to pre- vious setup. This automation setup is capable of testing of all test cases of various domains for a server with this automation setup, hence increase the reliability and decrease the cost of testing compared to the Control box architecture.