strongSwan UML - Running the tests
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1. Starting up the UML testing environment
When the strongSwan UML testing environment has been put into place by running the make-testingscript then you are ready to start up the UML instances by calling
./start-testing <hosts>
This main script first calls the subscript
scripts/start-switches
that starts the three UML switches umlswitch0, umlswitch1, and umlswitch2 which are connecting the UML instances among each other and also make them accessible from the host system via tun/tapdevices.
Then depending on the setting of the UMLSTARTMODE variable defined in testing.conf, the UML instances given on the command line are started up with different terminals:
If you are running the KDE graphical environment then by setting
UMLSTARTMODE=konsole
the script
scripts/kstart-umls <hosts>
is called which starts up each of the UML instances defined by <hosts> in a KDE konsole. If
UMLSTARTMODE=xterm
is set then
scripts/xstart-umls <hosts>
starts up the UML instances in an xterm each. And with the choice
UMLSTARTMODE=screen
the instances are started up by
scripts/start-umls <hosts>
in the background but the Linux command screen -r <host>" can be used to connect a terminal to the UML instance <host>if desired.
if [ $ENABLE_DO_TESTS = "yes" ]
then
do-tests
fi
either executes all the tests defined in the testing/tests directory if the variable SELECTEDTESTSONLY in testing.conf is set to "no" or the selected tests defined by the string in SELELECTEDTESTS if SELECTEDTESTSONLYis set to "yes".
if [ $ENABLE_STOP_TESTING = "yes" ]
then
stop-testing <hosts>
fi
stops the both the UML switches and the UML instances designated by the <hosts>argument.
2. Running the automated tests
The script
./do-tests <testnames>
runs the automated tests. With an empty <testnames> argument the tests as defined in testing.conf are executed, otherwise the tests enumerated by the <testnames>argument will be run as shown in the example below.
./do-tests net2net-psk net2net-cert
Each test is divided into the following phases:
- scripts/load-testconfig <testname> loads the UML hosts with test specific settings if such are provided.
- next the pretest.dat script found in each test directory is executed. Among other commands, strongSwan is started on the IPsec hosts.
- the evaltest.dat script evaluates if the test has been successful.
- the posttest.dat script terminates the test e.g. by stopping strongSwan on the IPsec hosts.
- scripts/restore-defaults <testname> restores the default settings on the UML hosts.
The test results and configuration settings for all tests settings are stored in a folder labeled with the current date in the directory
~/strongswan-testing/testresults
the same results are also automatically transferred to the Apache server running on UML instance winnetouand can be accessed via the URL
http://192.168.0.150/testresults/
3. Manual testing
The greates flexibility can be achieved with manual testing. Just set
ENABLE_DO_TESTS="no"
ENABLE_STOP_TESTING="no"
in testing.confand start the UML instances that you want to experiment with by calling
./start-testing <hosts>
If you want to preload a test scenario with configurations differing from the default values, e.g. when using Preshared Keys then you can do this with the command
scripts/load-testconfig net2net-psk
You can then log onto any UML instance using its konsole, xterm or screen terminal as rootwith the default password
tuxmux
You can then execute any commands the UML instances, including changing and recompiling the strongSwan source code located in the /rootdirectory. After you have finished testing, the default configuration settings can restored with the command
scripts/restore-defaults net2net-psk
2012-05-02 info@strongswan.org