Schedule FrOSCon 2026

Lecture

Automated testing of a phone operating system

How postmarketOS wants to simplify testing of devices

August 15, 2026 HS 3 en Unbreak your phone – A life without iOS and Android

Building a phone operating system, like postmarketOS is hard. Manually testing upgrades is time-consuming and should be automated. Let me present to you what the postmarketOS project has been working on to automate booting software on consumer hardware, and to especially handle the case when the boot is not successful. With the postmarketOS hardware CI boards, you can replace its battery, remotely control the phone, and get logs.