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Maybe this shoulda been here:

http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php?topic=50203.0

More stuff at: http://terryking.us/arduino-testing.htm

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Hi - I like the idea that I can test the arduino board easily.
To eliminate the nagging thought that I damaged it by mistake, and so the software does not work!!

I rarely solder - mainly just to put pins on for use in a solderless breadboard, so although I have a mega, am mostly using my mini...

I think that I could set up a breadboard with the resistors as you describe, and have a test location for the mini - does that make sense?

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Terry

Your test methods look very good and the way you did the board makes a lot of sense.

I helped develop the official test suite for Arduino, if you could re-write your test using the standardized testing library, we could incorporate it into the full test suite.  Your test would stay the same, the only thing that would change would be the format of the output.

http://code.google.com/p/arduino/wiki/ArduinoTestSuite

Mark

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I helped develop the official test suite for Arduino,

Of course that would leave mega based boards not tested on all their avalible pins.

Lefty

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I helped develop the official test suite for Arduino,

Of course that would leave mega based boards not tested on all their avalible pins.

Lefty

@LEFTy you're RIGHT, which happens pretty often    I will be making a MEGA Test Shield soon.  IF this seems like a good approach a real Shield with SM resistors etc. could be made. 

@MARK, please get in touch about this: terry@yourduino.com

I have a long background in chip testing at IBM and I've been thinking of writing some more detailed self-test code for Arduino internals, memory etc. With the idea that Arduino users could run some kind of confidence tests long after their Arduino left the factory.  There must be code from ATMEL??

Of course there's a lot of guts that can't be tested in a self-test mode.. But I think we can assume that ATMEL did OK at Chip Test and now we are mostly looking for Board Connectivity and I/O pin damage issues.

What's your opinion about this stuff?? Should we start a new thread??