Stable: Serial port and plugins improvements

Changes/bug-fixes:

• Add dynamic (from directory) host test loading feature
  • Add new switch -e / --enum-host-tests
  • Add path and module load checks in function loading local host tests: mymodule/test/host_tests
• Change default baud-rate to 115200
• Add new format of serial port:
  • Use PORT:SPEED or PORT:SPEED:TIMEOUT to define more specific characteristics of serial port
  • Example 1: -p COM4:115200
  • Example 2: COM4:115200:0.5 where 0.5 is a serial port default timeout
• Add API to determine if host test plugin works under OS
  • Add OS support flag to --plugins switch
  • Add LinuxGeneric value to OS detection function
• Add required_parameters attribute to plugin base
• Fixed: usage of default params in Mbed::copy_image() method
• Fixed: plugin error prints for missing params
• Fixed: Move UDP server init from ctor to separate function
• Disable JN51xx plugins (reason: very unstable)
• Allign with latest Python Coverage tool
• README.md polishing

Stable: TechCon 2015 OOB testing bugfixes and improvements

Changes / bug-fixes:

• Add host test end condition when {end} delimiter is present on output
• Add Test::detect_test_config(self, verbose, timeout) timeout parameter
• Add APIs to detect host OS by htrun
• Add CONTRIBUTING.md
• Bug-fix for #26

Stable: Command line and copy plugins improvements

Changes / Improvements:

• Add 'send break functionality' with new CLI -b switch
• Bug-fix: Add image_path normalisation
• Add pylint scripts: lintme.sh and lintme_ci.sh
• Add .travis.yml file

Stable: Host test integration with mbed-greentea improvements

Changes / Bugfixes:

• Add MANIFEST.in to fix pip install issues
• Bugfix: add handling for error where host test name is not valid, registered host test
• Bugfix: host test was executed even when wrong host test name was given
• Improvement: change printout in wait_auto host test

Updates to documentation and packege meta-data

Changes:

• Changes in documentation
• Updated information in setup.py to match current project status
• Added mbed-client first host tests

Stable: 100% CPU usage bugfix

Changes:

• Bugfix: host_test.detect_test_config() method didn't check if serial.readline() fails
  • mbedhtrun was parsing test case properties after serial port initialization (with polling failed)
  • Bug originated from Greentea issue report: ARMmbed/greentea#14
• Add few debug prints to serial port functions

Stable: Minor updates to stlink flashing plugin

Changes/bugfixes:

• stlink flashing plugin improvements:
  • Added flash address 0x0800 0000 to stlink flashing plugin
  • Added 'flashing verification flag -V to stlink flashing plugin
• Added --version switch

Stable: Support for ST-LINK_CLI copy and reset methods

Changes/Bugfixes:

• Added stlink copy and reset plugin
  • Added static stlink plugin registration in plugin registry mechanism
    Example:

$ mbedhtrun -f ./DISCO_F429ZI/GCC_ARM/MBED_A1/basic.bin -c stlink -r stlink -p COM61

• Added plugin reset info for --help option
• Added new CLI option --plugins used to print available plugins
  Example:

$ mbedhtrun --plugins
+----------------------------------+-------------+------------------------------+--------+
| name                             | type        | capabilities                 | stable |
+----------------------------------+-------------+------------------------------+--------+
| HostTestPluginCopyMethod_Mbed    | CopyMethod  | shutil, default              | True   |
| HostTestPluginCopyMethod_Shell   | CopyMethod  | shell, cp, copy, xcopy       | True   |
| HostTestPluginCopyMethod_Silabs  | CopyMethod  | eACommander, eACommander-usb | True   |
| HostTestPluginCopyMethod_Stlink  | CopyMethod  | stlink                       | False  |
| HostTestPluginResetMethod_Mbed   | ResetMethod | default                      | True   |
| HostTestPluginResetMethod_SiLabs | ResetMethod | eACommander, eACommander-usb | True   |
| HostTestPluginResetMethod_Stlink | ResetMethod | stlink                       | False  |
+----------------------------------+-------------+------------------------------+--------+

Stable: Copy method update and Doxygen changes

Changes/bugfixes:

• Fixed issue #18 - Default copy method on Mac OS X causes failure in Flash Algorithm.
• Shell copy method should be default one so we do not have to use -c option to make thing works out of the box.
• Added Doxygen documentation to tool source code.

Stable: New base host test class (rampUp, rampDown model)

Changes:

• Bugfix: long path to JSON file contained quote chars.
• Fixed issue detected with nose tests.
• Removed extra prints.
• Added base class for all host test with rampUp(), rampDown() and test(self, selftest) function:

class BaseHostTest():
    def rumpUp(self):
        pass

    def test(self, selftest):
        pass

    def rampDown(self):
        pass