3 WARNING: these tests are in alpha state!
7 This is basically a collection of bash scripts to test the command line options of:
16 The command line options of Ethereal and the companion command line tools are
17 numerous. This makes it hard to find newly introduced bugs doing manual testing
18 (try and error) with source code changes.
20 The current way is to do some changes, testing some scenarios by hand and
21 commit the code so other users will complain about new problems. This obviously
22 is far from being optimal.
27 The test set currently provided will only do some basic tests, but even that
28 is far better than nothing. This may involve in time as new tests can be added
29 to fix problems reported by users. This will hopefully lead to a "complete"
30 and reliable testset in the future.
32 The tests are limited to command line tests, other things like unit tests or
33 GUI test are not included.
38 What you'll need (to do):
40 - THE LATEST DEVELOPER BUILDS (the 0.10.13 release won't work)!
41 - obviously, compile the programs (ethereal, ...) to be tested
42 - have a bash (cygwin should do well)
43 - you'll need a network interface with some network traffic
44 (so you can run the capture tests)
45 - edit the file config.sh to suit your configuration
50 Start test.sh which should provide a basic menu. Just press Enter to start
53 It should start all the available tests. Each test will throw out a line
54 which should end with a green "Ok". If one of the tests fail, the script
55 will report it and stop at this test step.
57 PLEASE REMEMBER TO HAVE SOME TRAFFIC ON YOUR NETWORK INTERFACE!!!