[OpenAFS-devel] afs test suite

[Derrick J Brashear]

On 20 Jul 2001 eichin-oa@boxedpenguin.com wrote:

> 
> > -assume a complete cell available for testing purposes
> 
> Note that one thing we (Cygnus, back-in-the-day) did with KerbNet was
> to add features to simplify creating a sandbox realm automatically for
> testing use; we actually ended up with a dejagnu harness that created
> a KRBTEST.COM realm (and yes, it *was* registered at the time, though
> it seems gone now) and ran as many of the servers as we could without
> privs.  This meant adding alternate port number support to everything,
> making sure all config files could really be revectored with
> environment variables, that sort of thing.  (This also helped show how
> easy it really was to set up a realm :-)

AFS lucks out in that only the krb4/krb5 binding of the kaserver grabs
priviledged ports, and that can be disabled.

> My point is just that you should assume you'll want to add features to
> enhance testing, rather than attempting to come up with a contorted
> mechanism to test the system as-is; although there is of course value
> in testing a "real" running system, the more tests that can be run
> with a simple (if slow) "make check" the better.

Some tests simply won't be able to be done this way, but it's better than
testing nothing.

-D