1 tdc - Linux Traffic Control (tc) unit testing suite
3 Author: Lucas Bates - lucasb@mojatatu.com
5 tdc is a Python script to load tc unit tests from a separate JSON file and
6 execute them inside a network namespace dedicated to the task.
12 * Minimum Python version of 3.4. Earlier 3.X versions may work but are not
15 * The kernel must have network namespace support
17 * The kernel must have veth support available, as a veth pair is created
18 prior to running the tests.
20 * The kernel must have the appropriate infrastructure enabled to run all tdc
21 unit tests. See the config file in this directory for minimum required
22 features. As new tests will be added, config options list will be updated.
24 * All tc-related features being tested must be built in or available as
25 modules. To check what is required in current setup run:
29 In the current release, tdc run will abort due to a failure in setup or
30 teardown commands - which includes not being able to run a test simply
31 because the kernel did not support a specific feature. (This will be
32 handled in a future version - the current workaround is to run the tests
33 on specific test categories that your kernel supports)
39 The path to the tc executable that will be most commonly tested can be defined
40 in the tdc_config.py file. Find the 'TC' entry in the NAMES dictionary and
43 If you need to test a different tc executable on the fly, you can do so by
44 using the -p option when running tdc:
45 ./tdc.py -p /path/to/tc
51 To use tdc, root privileges are required. This is because the
52 commands being tested must be run as root. The code that enforces
53 execution by root uid has been moved into a plugin (see PLUGIN
56 If nsPlugin is linked, all tests are executed inside a network
57 namespace to prevent conflicts within the host.
59 Running tdc without any arguments will run all tests. Refer to the section
60 on command line arguments for more information, or run:
63 tdc will list the test names as they are being run, and print a summary in
64 TAP (Test Anything Protocol) format when they are done. If tests fail,
65 output captured from the failing test will be printed immediately following
66 the failed test in the TAP output.
69 OVERVIEW OF TDC EXECUTION
70 -------------------------
72 One run of tests is considered a "test suite" (this will be refined in the
73 future). A test suite has one or more test cases in it.
75 A test case has four stages:
82 The setup and teardown stages can run zero or more commands. The setup
83 stage does some setup if the test needs it. The teardown stage undoes
84 the setup and returns the system to a "neutral" state so any other test
85 can be run next. These two stages require any commands run to return
86 success, but do not otherwise verify the results.
88 The execute and verify stages each run one command. The execute stage
89 tests the return code against one or more acceptable values. The
90 verify stage checks the return code for success, and also compares
91 the stdout with a regular expression.
93 Each of the commands in any stage will run in a shell instance.
96 USER-DEFINED CONSTANTS
97 ----------------------
99 The tdc_config.py file contains multiple values that can be altered to suit
100 your needs. Any value in the NAMES dictionary can be altered without affecting
101 the tests to be run. These values are used in the tc commands that will be
102 executed as part of the test. More will be added as test cases require.
105 $TC qdisc add dev $DEV1 ingress
107 The NAMES values are used to substitute into the commands in the test cases.
110 COMMAND LINE ARGUMENTS
111 ----------------------
113 Run tdc.py -h to see the full list of available arguments.
115 usage: tdc.py [-h] [-p PATH] [-D DIR [DIR ...]] [-f FILE [FILE ...]]
116 [-c [CATG [CATG ...]]] [-e ID [ID ...]] [-l] [-s] [-i] [-v] [-N]
117 [-d DEVICE] [-P] [-n] [-V]
122 -h, --help show this help message and exit
123 -p PATH, --path PATH The full path to the tc executable to use
124 -v, --verbose Show the commands that are being run
125 -N, --notap Suppress tap results for command under test
126 -d DEVICE, --device DEVICE
127 Execute the test case in flower category
128 -P, --pause Pause execution just before post-suite stage
131 select which test cases: files plus directories; filtered by categories
134 -D DIR [DIR ...], --directory DIR [DIR ...]
135 Collect tests from the specified directory(ies)
137 -f FILE [FILE ...], --file FILE [FILE ...]
138 Run tests from the specified file(s)
139 -c [CATG [CATG ...]], --category [CATG [CATG ...]]
140 Run tests only from the specified category/ies, or if
141 no category/ies is/are specified, list known
143 -e ID [ID ...], --execute ID [ID ...]
144 Execute the specified test cases with specified IDs
147 select action to perform on selected test cases
149 -l, --list List all test cases, or those only within the
151 -s, --show Display the selected test cases
152 -i, --id Generate ID numbers for new test cases
155 options for nsPlugin (run commands in net namespace)
158 Run commands in namespace as specified in tdc_config.py
161 options for valgrindPlugin (run command under test under Valgrind)
163 -V, --valgrind Run commands under valgrind
169 There is now a plugin architecture, and some of the functionality that
170 was in the tdc.py script has been moved into the plugins.
172 The plugins are in the directory plugin-lib. The are executed from
173 directory plugins. Put symbolic links from plugins to plugin-lib,
174 and name them according to the order you want them to run.
178 bjb@bee:~/work/tc-testing$ ls -l plugins
180 lrwxrwxrwx 1 bjb bjb 27 Oct 4 16:12 10-rootPlugin.py -> ../plugin-lib/rootPlugin.py
181 lrwxrwxrwx 1 bjb bjb 25 Oct 12 17:55 20-nsPlugin.py -> ../plugin-lib/nsPlugin.py
182 -rwxr-xr-x 1 bjb bjb 0 Sep 29 15:56 __init__.py
184 The plugins are a subclass of TdcPlugin, defined in TdcPlugin.py and
185 must be called "SubPlugin" so tdc can find them. They are
186 distinguished from each other in the python program by their module
189 This base class supplies "hooks" to run extra functions. These hooks are as follows:
193 pre- and post-execute stage
194 adjust-command (runs in all stages and receives the stage name)
196 The pre-suite hook receives the number of tests and an array of test ids.
197 This allows you to dump out the list of skipped tests in the event of a
198 failure during setup or teardown stage.
200 The pre-case hook receives the ordinal number and test id of the current test.
202 The adjust-command hook receives the stage id (see list below) and the
203 full command to be executed. This allows for last-minute adjustment
206 The stages are identified by the following strings:
216 To write a plugin, you need to inherit from TdcPlugin in
217 TdcPlugin.py. To use the plugin, you have to put the
218 implementation file in plugin-lib, and add a symbolic link to it from
219 plugins. It will be detected at run time and invoked at the
220 appropriate times. There are a few examples in the plugin-lib
224 implements the enforcement of running as root
226 sets up a network namespace and runs all commands in that namespace
228 runs each command in the execute stage under valgrind,
229 and checks for leaks.
230 This plugin will output an extra test for each test in the test file,
231 one is the existing output as to whether the test passed or failed,
232 and the other is a test whether the command leaked memory or not.
233 (This one is a preliminary version, it may not work quite right yet,
234 but the overall template is there and it should only need tweaks.)
242 Jamal Hadi Salim, for providing valuable test cases
243 Keara Leibovitz, who wrote the CLI test driver that I used as a base for the
244 first version of the tc testing suite. This work was presented at
245 Netdev 1.2 Tokyo in October 2016.
246 Samir Hussain, for providing help while I dove into Python for the first time
247 and being a second eye for this code.