[Commotion-dev] Python-based testing framework across Ubuntu/Debian and Android (and maybe OSX)?

Andrew Reynolds andrew at opentechinstitute.org
Sat Mar 16 03:14:49 UTC 2013


It sounds reasonable. Could you sketch out what you have in mind? How
much of the network setup were you thinking of building into the test
framework vs. simply triggering and testing?

-andrew

On 03/15/2013 02:48 PM, Ben West wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> In lieu of recent progress towards getting Commotion to a working state on
> Android, Ubuntu/Debian. and now possibly OSX, what thoughts about building
> a simple and (to whatever degree feasible) cross-platform testing framework
> in Python?
> 
> The general idea is that python scripts could be used to start hitting the
> test vectors listed here (note the server appears to be really slow):
> 
> https://code.commotionwireless.net/projects/commotion/wiki/Testing#Mesh-Routing-Tech-Evaluations
> https://code.commotionwireless.net/projects/commotion/wiki/Testing#Testbed-Requirements-based-on-test-suite-defined-above
> https://code.commotionwireless.net/projects/commotion/wiki/Testing#Release-Candidate-Test-Regimen
> 
> That is, assuming Ubuntu/Debian/OSX's python support as a starting point,
> could these lighweight python implementations allow for some unified test
> scripts across platforms?
> 
> http://qpython.com/ (for Android)
> https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/packages/lang/python/Makefile (for OpenWRT,
> to be compiled as module)
> 
> Has anyone on the list had good experience with these Python
> implementations?
> 
> My original thought for such testing scripts was to do them in shell
> scripting, but I'm guessing Python would be easier and more powerful.
> 
> 
> 
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