This page provides information about the Dovetail Test Tool. The Dovetail Test Tool is designed to leverage existing OPNFV test projects (such as functest and yardstick) to automate the execution of Dovetail Test Areas and Test Cases in a way that satisfies compliance testing requirements, and generate required reports for use by the OPNFV compliance verification program.

Dovetail Test Tool Design

Test cases from upstream projects will be validated and work in conjunction with each other as an organic whole. To achieve this goal, we need bunch of scripts to communicate with these test cases. The scripts can execute the test cases under certain circumstances, and then analysis variety results to make a human-friendly report .

This diagram will present the dependencies between each module in dovetail tool:

Component	Description	Status
config	basiclly the same env config as the config in functest/yardstick, used to indicate SUT information	Done
Testcase file	testcase definition files, mapping to the testcase from functest/yardstick being executed. these testcases comprise the certification	Done
testsuite	testsuite definition files, to determine the scenario of the SUT, and a collection of testcases	Done, basic definition
parser	parse, load and check input files(config,certification,testcases) if they are valid	Done, basic function
Testcase keeper	Testcase management, execution status , etc	Done
Test Runner	different runner for different test case type.	Done
Container manager	all stuff around the container, like pull image, start container and exec cmd in container	Done
runner	main entry for running through the whole validating procedure	Done
report	manage test results and generate reports from these results	Done
dashboard	presentation of test report and show the details of each testcase	Optional

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Dovetail Test Definition Files

Dovetail uses two levels of definition files to specify what exact test cases are to be executed in a given test run or test suite specification.

Test Suite Definition File

This file defines a suite that is comprised of test cases which may be a partial list of all existing test cases. It gives the suite a name that is more convenient for reference.

certification_basic: test suite name
testcase_list: a list of test case referenced to be in the named test suite

Test Case Definition File

dovetail.feature.tc003: name of the test case, comprised of 3 parts, the dovetail project, belongs to which feature, and the serial number
objective: a brief description of the test case, explains the objective of this test case
scripts: scripts and configurations for the execution of the test case
- type: upstream testing project
- testcase: the input parameter for the execution of the upstream testing scripts
- sub_testcase_list: a list of real working test, indicated what's inside of this test case