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87 <h1>libvirt-test-API: Python based test suite </h1>
88 <p>Libvirt-test-API is a powerful test tool designed to complement
89 existing libvirt test tools such as libvirt-TCK and the internal
90 test suite. It aims at functional regression testing, trying to
91 exercise nearly all the API by the way of the Python bindings.</p>
92 <p>The test API currently covers:</p>
93 <ul><li>domain: all classical lifetime operations, installation of
94 various guests OSes, snapshots</li><li>interfaces: define, create, destroy, undefine, NPIV</li><li>virtual networks: define, create, destroy, undefine</li><li>storage: regression tests for most storage types and configurations
95 dir, disk, netfs, iSCSI, multipath</li></ul>
96 <p>Some of the tests need dedicated local resources whose definitions
97 are stored in a configuration file. The tests are defined using
98 Python modules defining the code for the test, this is called
99 a <tt>test case</tt>, and test <tt>configuration files</tt> using one
100 or more test case to define a given test scenario.</p>
101 <p>For more details you can look at:</p>
102 <ul><li> A <a href="http://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-test-API/Libvirt-test-API.pdf" shape="rect">documentation PDF</a>
103 file describing the test suite and how to write test cases
104 and test scenarios.</li></ul>
105 <p> Libvirt-test-API is maintained using
106 <a href="http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt-test-API.git" shape="rect">a GIT
107 repository</a>, and comment, patches and reviews are carried
108 on the <a href="contact.html" shape="rect">libvir-list</a> development list.</p>
113 Sponsored by:<br /><a href="http://et.redhat.com/"><img src="et.png" alt="Project sponsored by Red Hat Emerging Technology" /></a></p>