[Xorp-hackers] testing xorp

[Bob Gilligan]

Hi Gabor -- I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but at Vyatta, we do alot of routing protocol testing with the Spirent SmartBits Tera Routing Tester (TRT).  The advantage of TRT is that it allows one to generate a wide range of workloads for multiple routing protocols.  You can have the tester simulate multiple routers, offering different route updates, and schedule events like link flaps, and simulate IP traffic all at the same time.  The downside is that it only runs on a SmartBits tester, and those are not exactly cheap!  TRT tests can be automated.  Spirent provides a TCL client library for scripting.  But we haven't done any automation yet.

Spirent has lots of info on the SmartBits tester and info about TRT and other applications for it on their web site at:  http://www.spirent.com/analysis/technology.cfm?media=7&ws=325&ss=110&stype=15&a=1

Bob.


----- "Gabor Szabo" <szabgab at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to collect information and write articles about
> Quality Assurance and Automated Testing in Open Source Projects
> http://www.szabgab.com/blog/2007/07/1183825266.html
> 
> I have information on many stand-alone tools and applications
> (e.g. Perl, PostgreSQL) yet to be posted on my site,
> but I would like to include information on how testing is done for
> networking applications and especially xorp.
> 
> I looked at http://www.xorp.org/ and http://www.vyatta.com/
> but the only thing I found was
> http://www.vyatta.com/twiki/bin/view/Community/UnhTestResults
> This is not what I was looking for.
> 
> Are there automatic (unit) tests in the project?
> If I want to run them, how can I do it?
> Are there smoke testers?
> Where are the reports?
> 
> I'd appreciate pointers, where should I read about this?
> 
> regards
>    Gabor
> 
> -- 
> Gabor Szabo
> http://www.szabgab.com/
> Perl Training in Israel  http://www.pti.co.il/
> 
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