The Yocto Project is an open source umbrella project which gathers all needed tools to build full Linux distributions for a wide variety of devices. As the interest for Yocto grew since its first steps, its size and number of use cases increased consequentially. This growth quickly introduced the need of automated testing so that developers can keep introducing new features to the project while making sure not to break any existing part. Bootlin engineer Alexis Lothoré has recently been involved in the Continuous Integration infrastructure of the Yocto Project and has brought improvements to allow Yocto maintainers to detect regressions earlier.
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