Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] RFC: Test suite for (t)ethereal?

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Hi List!

I've done some substantial changes to tethereal, basically using a lot 
of code from capture_loop.c instead of the duplicate code in tethereal.c 
(it reduced it by about 400 lines of code).

Now I'm a bit "frightened" to check in the changes, as I'm pretty sure 
I've introduced some new bugs.

What I would like to have is a test suite to check (at least) the 
various command line options by a test script, so we can avoid these 
kind of problems in the future.

I would like to have an automated test suite to check several 
functionalities:

- capturing (with various conditions, interface settings, ...)
- stop after a specific capture time
- stop after a specific amount of time
- stop after a number of files captured
- check expected output strings
- check output files (e.g. by using capinfos)
- ...

Now I'm unsure what kind of test suite should be used. It should be 
cross platform and should be easy to use (simple?).

I'm pretty sure, theres already something available for this, so we 
don't have to start from scratch.

Maybe a perl, bash or whatever script.

We might want to add these test to the buildbot later :-)

Any suggestions?

Regards, ULFL