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We are continually working on adding new features +and guest operating systems to our battery of tests.</p> +<p>We warmly welcome contributions, new ideas for good tests and fixes.</p> +</div> +<div class="section" id="directory-layout"> +<h1>Directory Layout</h1> +<dl class="docutils"> +<dt>./docs/</dt> +<dd><p class="first">The documentation for the test suite mostly lives here, the exception being +readme.txt files that are better off living near what they concern.</p> +<p class="last">For a definition of terms used here, see the Definitions / Glossary section +of ./docs/AutomaticTestingRevamp.txt / ./docs/AutomaticTestingRevamp.html.</p> +</dd> +<dt>./testdriver/</dt> +<dd><p class="first">Python module implementing the base test drivers and supporting stuff. +The base test driver implementation is found in ./testdriver/base.py while +the VBox centric specialization is in ./testdriver/vbox.py. Various VBox +API wrappers that makes things easier to use and glosses over a lot of API +version differences that live in ./testdriver/vboxwrappers.py.</p> +<p>Test VM collections are often managed thru ./testdriver/vboxtestvms.py, but +doesn't necessarily have to be, it's up to the individual test driver.</p> +<p>For logging, reporting result, uploading useful files and such we have a +reporter singleton sub-package, ./testdriver/reporter.py. It implements +both local (for local testing) and remote (for testboxes + test manager) +reporting.</p> +<p class="last">There is also a VBoxTXS client implementation in txsclient.py and a stacked +test driver for installing VBox (vboxinstaller.py). Most test drivers will +use the TXS client indirectly thru vbox.py methods. The installer driver +is a special trick for the testbox+testmanager setup.</p> +</dd> +<dt>./tests/</dt> +<dd>The python scripts driving the tests. These are organized by what they +test and are all derived from the base classes in ./testdriver (mostly from +vbox.py of course). Most tests use one or more VMs from a standard set of +preconfigured VMs defined by ./testdriver/vboxtestvms.py (mentioned above), +though the installation tests used prepared ISOs and floppy images.</dd> +<dt>./vms/</dt> +<dd>Text documents describing the preconfigured test VMs defined by +./testdrive/vboxtestvms.py. This will also contain description of how to +prepare installation ISOs when we get around to it (soon).</dd> +<dt>./utils/</dt> +<dd><p class="first">Test utilities and lower level test programs, compiled from C, C++ and +Assembly mostly. Generally available for both host and guest, i.e. in the +zip and on the VBoxValidationKit.iso respectively.</p> +<p>The Test eXecution Service (VBoxTXS) found in ./utils/TestExecServ is one +of the more important utilities. It implements a remote execution service +for running programs/tests inside VMs and on other test boxes. See +./utils/TestExecServ/vboxtxs-readme.txt for more details.</p> +<p class="last">A simple network bandwidth and latency test program can be found in +./utils/network/NetPerf.cpp.</p> +</dd> +<dt>./bootsectors/</dt> +<dd><p class="first">Boot sector test environment. This allows creating floppy images in +assembly that tests specific CPU or device behaviour. Most tests can be +put on a USB stick, floppy or similar and booted up on real hardware for +comparison. All floppy images can be used for manual testing by developers +and most will be used by test drivers (./tests/<em>/td</em>.py) sooner or later.</p> +<p class="last">The boot sector environment is heavily bound to yasm and it's ability to +link binary images for single assembly input units. There is a "library" +of standard initialization code and runtime code, which include switch to +all (well V8086 mode is still missing, but we'll get that done eventually) +processor modes and paging modes. The image specific code is split into +init/driver code and test template, the latter can be instantiated for each +process execution+paging mode.</p> +</dd> +<dt>./common/</dt> +<dd>Python package containing common python code.</dd> +<dt>./testboxscript/</dt> +<dd>The testbox script. This is installed on testboxes used for automatic +testing with the testmanager.</dd> +<dt>./testmanager/</dt> +<dd>The VirtualBox Test Manager (server side code). This is written in Python +and currently uses postgresql as database backend for no particular reason +other than that it was already installed on the server the test manager was +going to run on. It's relatively generic, though there are of course +things in there that are of more use when testing VirtualBox than other +things. A more detailed account (though perhaps a little dated) of the +test manager can be found in ./docs/AutomaticTestingRevamp.txt and +./docs/AutomaticTestingRevamp.html.</dd> +<dt>./testanalysis/</dt> +<dd>A start a local test result analysis, comparing network test output. We'll +probably be picking this up again later.</dd> +<dt>./snippets/</dt> +<dd>Various code snippets that may be turned into real tests at some point.</dd> +</dl> +<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> +<col class="field-name" /> +<col class="field-body" /> +<tbody valign="top"> +<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Status:</th><td class="field-body">$Id: VBoxValidationKitReadMe.html $</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Copyright:</th><td class="field-body">Copyright (C) 2010-2017 Oracle Corporation.</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> +</div> +</div> +</body> +</html> |