Autobuilder is a project that facilitates the build test automation and conducts quality assurance. Through this internal project, the Yocto community tries to set a path on which embedded developers are able to publish their QA tests and testing plans, develop new tools for automatic testing, continuous integration, and develop QA procedures to demonstrate and show them for the benefit of all involved parties.

These points are already achieved by a project that publishes its current status using this Autobuilder platform, which is available at http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/. This link is accessible to everyone and testing is performed on all the changes related to the Yocto Project, as well as nightly builds for all supported hardware platforms. Although started from the Buildbot project, from which it borrowed components for continuous integration, this project promises to move forward and offer the possibility of performing runtime testing and other must-have functionalities...