perfsonar development work

[Maciej Glowiak <>]

Hi Loukik,

I went through the Michael's document again. I think it covers all the 
tests that should be done. One missing step, I can imagine, is LSCleanup 
linked with LSKeepalive.

Keepalives should be tested separately as an input request, but there is 
also LSCleanup, which is run by scheduler. I think functional tests 
should also cover such functionality.

LSCleanup removes not-up-to-date Lookup Information basing on special 
control information (timestamps). There are several cases to test.
Control information should be also tested with LSRegister/Update, 
LSDeregister, LSKeepalive (timestamps should be modified)

I guess Michael's tests will cover such tests, but I didn't found 
explicit statements about it in the document.

Of course I can answer all Michael's farther question regarding Lookup 
Service.

So, my conclusion is that the document in its current state is fine, but 
some words about testing LSCleanup should be added.

Maciej


Loukik Kudarimoti wrote:
> Hi Maciej,
>
> Michael is working on Functional tests or black-box testing. As you 
> might already know, this process will test the functionalities 
> specifications of a given software. It will do so with with the help of 
> good and bad requests, good and bad configurations, etc.
>
> What Michael requires is a functional specification of LS i.e. all the 
> functionalities that are implemented and that you think are ready for 
> testing and subsequent usage in the real world. This kind of functional 
> specifications are normally expected to be written by the developers but 
> we don't have any so far ( Please note that I am not trying to blame 
> anybody here. We simply don't have those documents so far and we need 
> them). Michael has written up such a document (in the long run, we will 
> want these documents to contain more information about APIs and so on).
>
> Can you please confirm that this document (in its current state) lists 
> out all the interfaces that are ready to be documented in a user 
> document used in the real world?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Loukik.
>
> Maciej Glowiak wrote:
> > Michael,
> >
> > I think your list is quite complete. I did most of these tests in 
> > order to test a service during the implementation.
> >
> > You could use ant targets you mentioned in previous mail and just 
> > change the content XML files (LSRegisterRequest.xml, 
> > LSDeregisterRequest.xml and so on)
> >
> > Maciej
> >
> > Michael Michalis wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > > Attached to this message is a document describing the functional 
> > > tests, that I intend to implement against the LS.
> > >
> > > I would like to here your comments and suggestions on them.
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > > Michalis Michael


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