Best Practices for embedded devices?

[Martin Braun]

In my hardware-testing rig controlled by Jenkins, there's a couple of
embedded devices. Their hanging off a peripherals Ethernet connection,
so I can ssh into them from the machine running Jenkins.

My question is, how do you guys go ahead and test these kinds of
devices? In my setup, I do a cross-compile of the software under test on
the main machine, and then call some commands via SSH on my embedded device.

What *didn't* work was adding the embedded device as a slave -- I'm
assuming the slave manager process can't run on my little SoC.

I'm mostly curious of your stories here.

Cheers,
Martin