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bf898cb7c4502a335cd7e0f2427ea3a0abc591ccvboxsync<div class="document" id="the-virtualbox-validation-kit">
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsync<h1 class="title">The VirtualBox Validation Kit</h1>
bf898cb7c4502a335cd7e0f2427ea3a0abc591ccvboxsync<p>The VirtualBox Validation Kit is our new public tool for doing automated
bf898cb7c4502a335cd7e0f2427ea3a0abc591ccvboxsynctesting of VirtualBox. We are continually working on adding new features
bf898cb7c4502a335cd7e0f2427ea3a0abc591ccvboxsyncand guest operating systems to our battery of tests.</p>
bf898cb7c4502a335cd7e0f2427ea3a0abc591ccvboxsync<p>We warmly welcome contributions, new ideas for good tests and fixes.</p>
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsync<dd><p class="first">The documentation for the test suite mostly lives here, the exception being
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncreadme.txt files that are better off living near what they concern.</p>
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsync<p class="last">For a definition of terms used here, see the Definitions / Glossary section
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncof /docs/AutomaticTestingRevamp.txt / /docs/AutomaticTestingRevamp.html.</p>
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsync<dd><p class="first">Python module implementing the base test drivers and supporting stuff.
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncThe base test driver implementation is found in /testdriver/base.py while
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncthe VBox centric specialization is in /testdriver/vbox.py. Various VBox
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncAPI wrappers that makes things easier to use and glosses over a lot of API
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cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsync<p>Test VM collections are often managed thru /testdriver/vboxtestvms.py, but
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cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsync<p>For logging, reporting result, uploading useful files and such we have a
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncreporter singleton sub-package, /testdriver/reporter.py. It implements
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cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncreporting.</p>
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsync<p class="last">There is also a VBoxTXS client implementation in txsclient.py and a stacked
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cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncuse the TXS client indirectly thru vbox.py methods. The installer driver
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncis a special trick for the testbox+testmanager setup.</p>
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsync<dd>The python scripts driving the tests. These are organized by what they
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsynctest and are all derived from the base classes in /testdriver (mostly from
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cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncthough the installation tests used prepared ISOs and floppy images.</dd>
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsync<dd>Text documents describing the preconfigured test VMs defined by
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsync/testdrive/vboxtestvms.py. This will also contain description of how to
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncprepare installation ISOs when we get around to it (soon).</dd>
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsync<dd><p class="first">Test utilities and lower level test programs, compiled from C, C++ and
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncAssembly mostly. Generally available for both host and guest, i.e. in the
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsynczip and on the VBoxValidationKit.iso respectively.</p>
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsync<p>The Test eXecution Service (VBoxTXS) found in /utils/TestExecServ is one
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncof the more important utilities. It implements a remote execution service
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncfor running programs/tests inside VMs and on other test boxes. See
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsync/utils/TestExecServ/vboxtxs-readme.txt for more details.</p>
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsync<p class="last">A simple network bandwidth and latency test program can be found in
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsync<dd><p class="first">Boot sector test environment. This allows creating floppy images in
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncassembly that tests specific CPU or device behaviour. Most tests can be
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncput on a USB stick, floppy or similar and booted up on real hardware for
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsynccomparison. All floppy images can be used for manual testing by developers
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncand most will be used by test drivers (/tests/<em>/td</em>.py) sooner or later.</p>
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsync<p class="last">The boot sector environment is heavily bound to yasm and it's ability to
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsynclink binary images for single assembly input units. There is a "library"
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncof standard initialization code and runtime code, which include switch to
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncall (well V8086 mode is still missing, but we'll get that done eventually)
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncprocessor modes and paging modes. The image specific code is split into
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncinit/driver code and test template, the latter can be instantiated for each
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncprocess execution+paging mode.</p>
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsync<dd>Python package containing common python code.</dd>
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsync<dd>The testbox script. This is installed on testboxes used for automatic
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsynctesting with the testmanager.</dd>
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsync<dd>The VirtualBox Test Manager (server side code). This is written in Python
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncand currently uses postgresql as database backend for no particular reason
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncother than that it was already installed on the server the test manager was
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncgoing to run on. It's relatively generic, though there are of course
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncthings in there that are of more use when testing VirtualBox than other
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncthings. A more detailed account (though perhaps a little dated) of the
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsynctest manager can be found in /docs/AutomaticTestingRevamp.txt and
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsync<dd>A start a local test result analysis, comparing network test output. We'll
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsyncprobably be picking this up again later.</dd>
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsync<dd>Various code snippets that may be turned into real tests at some point.</dd>
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsync<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsync<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Status:</th><td class="field-body">$Id$</td>
cf22150eaeeb72431bf1cf65c309a431454fb22bvboxsync<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Copyright:</th><td class="field-body">Copyright (C) 2010-2014 Oracle Corporation.</td>