[erlang-questions] [ANN]: Damocles, a library for testing distribution scenarios on a single machine

[Loïc Hoguin]

This looks really good!

On 01/05/2015 01:41 AM, Christopher Phillips wrote:
> https://github.com/lostcolony/damocles
>
> I asked a while back on this mailing list if anyone had any useful
> libraries or similar for testing distribution scenarios. I only got back
> a few responses (maybe co-op riak_test? Maybe make use of the underlying
> Linux traffic control and network emulation apps?), and my own searches,
> while finding a few libraries, didn't find anything I could easily co-op
> for my purposes.
>
> To that end, I went ahead and spent part of my break on this, and it
> just got sufficiently feature complete to throw out there. I haven't had
> a chance to really start using it heavily, and I've only been testing it
> on my dev box, but a basic run through of the functionality as I typed
> up the readme worked (so any issues being pointed out would be
> appreciated). Essentially, it allows you to create and manipulate local
> interfaces on a Linux machine to emulate packet delay and loss (using
> the underlying traffic control and network emulation mechanisms), with a
> number of convenience methods to (hopefully) easily describe fairly
> intricate distribution scenarios.
>
> Things like "create these 5 interfaces, (now from my test code, launch a
> copy of my app on each one, or even a different app on one of them, to
> see what happens when that resource is flaky); now make it so 1 and 2
> can't talk to 3 and 4, and vice versa, but everyone can still talk to 5,
> but replies have a 50% chance of being dropped from 5 when responding to
> 1 and 2, and there's a 300ms delay between 3 and 4; (now, let's run more
> of our test code to assert that trying to write to any node still
> succeeds); okay, now let's restore the network back to normal (and have
> our test code make sure the write was retained)", or whatever, can be
> set up in a straightforward, automated manner as part of a common test
> run, and not be reliant on certain VMs being up, nor the tests being run
> on a specific network. The tradeoff, obviously, being that you can't
> really load test things with it. Still, it fits my basic needs, and I
> figured it might be of use to others.
>
> I'll be adding some simple examples when I next get free time (I ran out
> of it from the holiday break without getting to them; dunno when I
> will), and will try and get to any bugs or simple suggestions in a
> timely manner, but hopefully it's fairly straightforward and useful as is.
>
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