Firmware Test Suite Text Based Front-End

The Firmware Test Suite (FWTS) has an easy to use text based front-end that is primarily used by the FWTS Live-CD image but it can also be used in the Ubuntu terminal.

To install and run the front-end use:

 sudo apt-get install fwts-frontend  
 sudo fwts-frontend-text  

..and one should see a menu of options:

In this demonstration, the "All Batch Tests" option has been selected:

Tests will be run one by one and a progress bar shows the progress of each test. Some tests run very quickly, others can take several minutes depending on the hardware configuration (such as number of processors).

Once the tests are all complete, the following dialogue box is displayed:

The test has saved several files into the directory /fwts/15052017/1748/ and selecting Yes one can view the results log in a scroll-box:

Exiting this, the FWTS frontend dialog is displayed:

Press enter to exit (note that the Poweroff option is just for the fwts Live-CD image version of fwts-frontend).

The tool dumps various logs, for example, the above run generated:

 ls -alt /fwts/15052017/1748/  
 total 1388  
 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root  4096 May 15 18:09 ..  
 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 May 15 17:49 .  
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 358666 May 15 17:49 acpidump.log  
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3808 May 15 17:49 cpuinfo.log  
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22238 May 15 17:49 lspci.log  
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19136 May 15 17:49 dmidecode.log  
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79323 May 15 17:49 dmesg.log  
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  311 May 15 17:49 README.txt  
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 631370 May 15 17:49 results.html  
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 281371 May 15 17:49 results.log  

acpidump.log is a dump of the ACPI tables in format compatible with the ACPICA acpidump tool.  The results.log file is a copy of the results generated by FWTS and results.html is a HTML formatted version of the log.