Update the `_RunControl.py` file to ensure that the thread join operation only occurs if the current thread is not the same as the thread being joined. This change aims to enhance thread safety and prevent potential deadlocks during run control operations.

Parse embedded config/status records through pyrogue.yamlToData() instead of calling yaml.load() directly. This keeps FileReader aligned with the rest of PyRogue's YAML handling and avoids modern PyYAML failures when no Loader is provided.

Introduce new test files for SimpleClient and Virtual interfaces, including comprehensive tests for client initialization, remote attribute handling, command execution, and listener functionality. These additions enhance test coverage and ensure robust validation of the PyRogue framework's interface components, improving overall reliability and maintainability.

Introduce a new test file for the DataReceiver class, implementing tests to verify frame processing, error handling, and connection behavior. These tests ensure accurate counting of frames and bytes, as well as proper handling of error states, enhancing the reliability and maintainability of the PyRogue framework.

Introduce a new test file for the ZmqServer class, implementing tests to verify listener registration, address resolution, operation requests, and string path handling. These tests enhance coverage and ensure the reliability of the ZmqServer component within the PyRogue framework.

Introduce a new test file for the SqlLogger class, implementing tests to verify variable and syslog row writing, handling of large integers and tuples, error handling for database connection failures, and insertion of syslog entries from a queue. These tests enhance coverage and ensure the reliability of the SqlLogger component within the PyRogue framework.

Update the SqlLogger class to unwrap JSON payloads from VariableValue objects before decoding syslog entries. This change ensures proper handling of log entries, improving the reliability of the logging functionality within the PyRogue framework.

Introduce a new test file for the Zmq integration, implementing tests to verify the interaction between a virtual client and a Zmq server. The tests cover variable access, command execution, and listener functionality, enhancing coverage and ensuring the reliability of the Zmq integration within the PyRogue framework.

Introduce a new test file for the SystemLogMonitor and VariableMonitor classes, implementing tests to verify the processing of log entries, filtering of non-system log updates, and display of variable updates. These tests enhance coverage and ensure the reliability of the monitoring components within the PyRogue framework.

Introduce a new test file for the StreamReader class, implementing tests to verify the open, close, and connection behavior of the stream reader wrapper. These tests enhance coverage and ensure the reliability of the StreamReader component within the PyRogue framework.

Introduce a new test file for the SideBandSim and MemEmulate classes, implementing tests to verify the send/receive operations, connection behavior, and error handling. These tests enhance coverage and ensure the reliability of the simulation components within the PyRogue framework.

Introduce a new test file for various model classes in the PyRogue framework, implementing tests for helper functions, unsigned and signed integer models, boolean and string models, as well as fixed-point models. These tests enhance coverage and ensure the reliability of the model components, validating their behavior across different scenarios and edge cases.

…complement handling. This improves the correctness of integer conversions in the PyRogue framework.

Introduce a new test file for the ModelVariable classes in the PyRogue framework, implementing tests for local and remote variable operations, including setting and getting values, type validation, and metadata exposure. These tests enhance coverage and ensure the reliability of the model variable components, validating their behavior across various scenarios.

Introduce a new test file for various helper functions, implementing tests for unified logging toggling, library path handling, YAML support, data formatting, function argument filtering, and documentation rendering. These tests enhance coverage and ensure the reliability of the helper components within the PyRogue framework, validating their behavior across different scenarios.

Introduce a new test file for the CPSW device and its child components in the PyRogue framework. The tests cover the export of remote variables, local variables, link variables, and commands, ensuring proper functionality and YAML file generation. These additions enhance test coverage and validate the behavior of CPSW-related components across various scenarios.

These bugs were found by the new cpsw test script.

…ML output

Introduce a new test file for the StreamWriter class in the PyRogue framework, implementing tests to verify the open, close, and status behavior of the stream writer wrapper. These tests enhance coverage and ensure the reliability of the StreamWriter component, validating its interaction with configuration streams and file handling.

Introduce a new test file for block transaction helpers and local block functionality. The tests cover transaction argument verification, memory error handling, and local block set/get operations, enhancing test coverage and ensuring the reliability of block-related components within the PyRogue framework.

Updated the in-place arithmetic methods (_iadd, _isub, _imul, _imatmul, _itruediv, _ifloordiv, _imod, _ipow, _ilshift, _irshift, _iand, _ixor, _ior) to use the instance variable instead of None for setting values. This change improves the accuracy of operations and ensures that the correct variable is updated during arithmetic operations in the LocalBlock class.

Introduce a new test file for the OsCommandMemorySlave class in the PyRogue framework. The tests cover read and write operations, error handling for missing transactions, and duplicate address scenarios, enhancing test coverage and ensuring the reliability of the OsCommandMemorySlave component.

Introduce a new test file for the UdpRssiPack class, implementing tests for UDP and RSSI client interactions, variable access, and start/stop behavior. These tests enhance coverage and ensure the reliability of the UdpRssiPack component, validating its functionality across various scenarios.

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Introduce a new test file for the UartMemory class, implementing tests for memory read/write transactions, error handling, and worker dispatching. These tests enhance coverage and ensure the reliability of the UartMemory component, validating its behavior across various scenarios.

…ramework

This commit introduces a new test file that validates the functionality of various device command variables, including local and remote variables, commands, and their interactions. The tests ensure proper handling of bulk operations, alarm states, and command execution, enhancing overall test coverage and reliability of the device command components.

This commit updates the BaseVariable class to ensure that indexed writes into ndarray-backed variables correctly handle scalar elements. It modifies the value assignment logic to convert 0-D ndarrays to scalars when necessary, improving data integrity during variable updates. Additionally, it refines index handling for single entry items to support both list and non-list index types.

This bug was found by the new test harness.

…ality

- Introduced tests for local variable type check errors and disabled type checking in `test_core_variables_commands.py`.
- Added a test to verify data receiver functionality without type checking in `test_data_receiver.py`.

…n test_core_logging.py, including system log handling and unified logging functionality. Update FakeVariable in test_core_block_helpers.py to enable type checking.

- Introduced `BRANCH_STATUS.md` to summarize the current state of the test suite, including test layout, coverage outcomes, structural changes, and notable fixes.
- Added `NEXT_STEPS.md` to outline immediate checks, high-value remaining work, and a branch wrap-up checklist.
- Updated `README.md` to reference the new planning documents for better visibility on branch status and future actions.

- Updated the `test_virtual_client_cache_update_dispatch_and_monitor` to use `itertools.chain` for stable time values, ensuring consistent behavior during link checks and warning-log records.

- Updated the CI workflow to include a dedicated performance testing job, allowing for separate execution of performance tests and result collection.
- Introduced a new script `ci_perf_summary.py` to format and display performance test results.
- Added functionality to emit performance metrics in JSON format from various performance tests, improving result tracking and analysis.
- Updated documentation to reflect new performance testing commands and usage.

- Added a note on enabling logging in the batcher documentation.
- Clarified the usage of `addRemoteVariables` in the PyRogue tree example, including details on indexed containers and packed `LinkVariable` entries.

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