5 \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
11 1.2 Port numbers used by test servers
14 1.5 Shell startup scripts
23 2.1 Test case numbering
35 ==============================================================================
41 perl (and a unix-style shell)
42 python (and a unix-style shell)
43 diff (when a test fails, a diff is shown)
44 stunnel (for HTTPS and FTPS tests)
45 OpenSSH or SunSSH (for SCP, SFTP and SOCKS4/5 tests)
47 1.2 Port numbers used by test servers
53 - TCP/8994 for HTTP IPv6
54 - TCP/8995 for FTP (2)
55 - TCP/8996 for FTP IPv6
57 - UDP/8998 for TFTP IPv6
58 - TCP/8999 for SCP/SFTP
63 - TCP/9004 for SMTP IPv6
65 - TCP/9006 for RTSP IPv6
67 - TCP/9008 for GOPHER IPv6
68 - TCP/9008 for HTTPS server with TLS-SRP support
72 The test suite runs simple FTP, POP3, IMAP, SMTP, HTTP and TFTP stand-alone
73 servers on the ports listed above to which it makes requests. For SSL tests,
74 it runs stunnel to handle encryption to the regular servers. For SSH, it
75 runs a standard OpenSSH server. For SOCKS4/5 tests SSH is used to perform
76 the SOCKS functionality and requires a SSH client and server.
78 The base port number (8990), which all the individual port numbers are
79 indexed from, can be set explicitly using runtests.pl' -b option to allow
80 running more than one instance of the test suite simultaneously on one
81 machine, or just move the servers in case you have local services on any of
86 'make test'. This builds the test suite support code and invokes the
87 'runtests.pl' perl script to run all the tests. Edit the top variables
88 of that script in case you have some specific needs, or run the script
89 manually (after the support code has been built).
91 The script breaks on the first test that doesn't do OK. Use -a to prevent
92 the script from aborting on the first error. Run the script with -v for more
93 verbose output. Use -d to run the test servers with debug output enabled as
94 well. Specifying -k keeps all the log files generated by the test intact.
96 Use -s for shorter output, or pass test numbers to run specific tests only
97 (like "./runtests.pl 3 4" to test 3 and 4 only). It also supports test case
98 ranges with 'to', as in "./runtests 3 to 9" which runs the seven tests from
99 3 to 9. Any test numbers starting with ! are disabled, as are any test
100 numbers found in the file data/DISABLED (one per line).
102 When -s is not present, each successful test will display on one line the
103 test number and description and on the next line a set of flags, the test
104 result, current test sequence, total number of tests to be run and an
105 estimated amount of time to complete the test run. The flags consist of
106 these letters describing what is checked in this test:
117 1.5 Shell startup scripts
119 Tests which use the ssh test server, SCP/SFTP/SOCKS tests, might be badly
120 influenced by the output of system wide or user specific shell startup
121 scripts, .bashrc, .profile, /etc/csh.cshrc, .login, /etc/bashrc, etc. which
122 output text messages or escape sequences on user login. When these shell
123 startup messages or escape sequences are output they might corrupt the
124 expected stream of data which flows to the sftp-server or from the ssh
125 client which can result in bad test behaviour or even prevent the test
128 If the test suite ssh or sftp server fails to start up and logs the message
129 'Received message too long' then you are certainly suffering the unwanted
130 output of a shell startup script. Locate, cleanup or adjust the shell
135 The test script will check that all allocated memory is freed properly IF
136 curl has been built with the CURLDEBUG define set. The script will
137 automatically detect if that is the case, and it will use the
138 'memanalyze.pl' script to analyze the memory debugging output.
140 Also, if you run tests on a machine where valgrind is found, the script will
141 use valgrind to run the test with (unless you use -n) to further verify
144 runtests.pl's -t option will enable torture testing mode, which runs each
145 test many times and makes each different memory allocation fail on each
146 successive run. This tests the out of memory error handling code to ensure
147 that memory leaks do not occur even in those situations. It can help to
148 compile curl with CPPFLAGS=-DMEMDEBUG_LOG_SYNC when using this option, to
149 ensure that the memory log file is properly written even if curl crashes.
153 If a test case fails, you can conveniently get the script to invoke the
154 debugger (gdb) for you with the server running and the exact same command
155 line parameters that failed. Just invoke 'runtests.pl <test number> -g' and
156 then just type 'run' in the debugger to perform the command through the
161 All logs are generated in the logs/ subdirectory (it is emptied first in the
162 runtests.pl script). Use runtests.pl -k to force it to keep the temporary
163 files after the test run since successful runs will clean it up otherwise.
167 All test cases are put in the data/ subdirectory. Each test is stored in the
168 file named according to the test number.
170 See FILEFORMAT for the description of the test case files.
174 gcc provides a tool that can determine the code coverage figures for
175 the test suite. To use it, configure curl with
176 CFLAGS='-fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage -g -O0'. Make sure you run the normal
177 and torture tests to get more full coverage, i.e. do:
182 The graphical tool ggcov can be used to browse the source and create
183 coverage reports on *NIX hosts:
187 The text mode tool gcov may also be used, but it doesn't handle object files
188 in more than one directory very well.
192 The runtests.pl script provides some hooks to allow curl to be tested on a
193 machine where perl can not be run. The test framework in this case runs on
194 a workstation where perl is available, while curl itself is run on a remote
195 system using ssh or some other remote execution method. See the comments at
196 the beginning of runtests.pl for details.
200 2.1 Test case numbering
207 500 - 599 libcurl source code tests, not using the curl command tool
209 700 - 799 SOCKS4 (even numbers) and SOCK5 (odd numbers)
210 800 - 899 POP3, IMAP, SMTP
211 1000 - 1299 miscellaneous*
212 1300 - 1399 unit tests*
213 1400 - 1499 miscellaneous*
214 1500 - 1599 libcurl source code tests, not using the curl command tool
216 2000 - x multiple sequential protocols per test case*
218 Since 30-apr-2003, there's nothing in the system that requires us to keep
219 within these number series, and those sections marked with * actually
220 contain tests for a variety of protocols. Each test case now specifies its
221 own server requirements, independent of test number.
225 Here's a quick description on writing test cases. We basically have three
226 kinds of tests: the ones that test the curl tool, the ones that build small
227 applications and test libcurl directly and the unit tests that test
228 individual (possibly internal) functions.
232 Each test has a master file that controls all the test data. What to read,
233 what the protocol exchange should look like, what exit code to expect and
234 what command line arguments to use etc.
236 These files are tests/data/test[num] where [num] is described in section 2
237 of this document, and the XML-like file format of them is described in the
238 separate tests/FILEFORMAT document.
242 A test case that runs the curl tool and verifies that it gets the correct
243 data, it sends the correct data, it uses the correct protocol primitives
248 The libcurl tests are identical to the curl ones, except that they use a
249 specific and dedicated custom-built program to run instead of "curl". This
250 tool is built from source code placed in tests/libtest and if you want to
251 make a new libcurl test that is where you add your code.
255 Unit tests are tests in the 13xx sequence and they are placed in tests/unit.
256 There's a tests/unit/README describing the specific set of checks and macros
257 that may be used when writing tests that verify behaviors of specific
258 individual functions.
260 The unit tests depend on curl being built with debug enabled.
266 Add tests for TELNET, LDAP, DICT...
270 SOCKS4/5 test deficiencies - no proxy authentication tests as SSH (the
271 test mechanism) doesn't support them