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authorEmilia Kasper <emilia@openssl.org>2016-03-17 15:14:30 +0100
committerEmilia Kasper <emilia@openssl.org>2016-04-05 13:44:46 +0200
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New SSL test framework
Currently, SSL tests are configured via command-line switches to ssltest.c. This results in a lot of duplication between ssltest.c and apps, and a complex setup. ssltest.c is also simply old and needs maintenance. Instead, we already have a way to configure SSL servers and clients, so we leverage that. SSL tests can now be configured from a configuration file. Test servers and clients are configured using the standard ssl_conf module. Additional test settings are configured via a test configuration. Moreover, since the CONF language involves unnecessary boilerplate, the test conf itself is generated from a shorter Perl syntax. The generated testcase files are checked in to the repo to make it easier to verify that the intended test cases are in fact run; and to simplify debugging failures. To demonstrate the approach, min/max protocol tests are converted to the new format. This change also fixes MinProtocol and MaxProtocol handling. It was previously requested that an SSL_CTX have both the server and client flags set for these commands; this clearly can never work. Guide to this PR: - test/ssl_test.c - test framework - test/ssl_test_ctx.* - test configuration structure - test/handshake_helper.* - new SSL test handshaking code - test/ssl-tests/ - test configurations - test/generate_ssl_tests.pl - script for generating CONF-style test configurations from perl inputs Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
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+# SSL tests
+
+SSL testcases are configured in the `ssl-tests` directory.
+
+Each `ssl_*.conf.in` file contains a number of test configurations. These files
+are used to generate testcases in the OpenSSL CONF format.
+
+The precise test output can be dependent on the library configuration. The test
+harness generates the output files on the fly.
+
+However, for verification, we also include checked-in configuration outputs
+corresponding to the default configuration. These testcases live in
+`test/ssl-tests/*.conf` files. Therefore, whenever you're adding or updating a
+generated test, you should run
+
+```
+$ ./config
+$ cd test
+$ TOP=.. perl -I testlib/ generate_ssl_tests.pl ssl-tests/my.conf.in \
+ > ssl-tests/my.conf
+```
+
+where `my.conf.in` is your test input file.
+
+For example, to generate the test cases in `ssl-tests/01-simple.conf.in`, do
+
+```
+$ TOP=.. perl generate_ssl_tests.pl ssl-tests/01-simple.conf.in > ssl-tests/01-simple.conf
+```
+
+For more details, see `ssl-tests/01-simple.conf.in` for an example.
+
+## Configuring the test
+
+First, give your test a name. The names do not have to be unique.
+
+An example test input looks like this:
+
+```
+ {
+ name => "test-default",
+ server => { "CipherString" => "DEFAULT" },
+ client => { "CipherString" => "DEFAULT" },
+ test => { "ExpectedResult" => "Success" },
+ }
+```
+
+The test section supports the following options:
+
+* ExpectedResult - expected handshake outcome. One of
+ - Success - handshake success
+ - ServerFail - serverside handshake failure
+ - ClientFail - clientside handshake failure
+ - InternalError - some other error
+
+* ClientAlert, ServerAlert - expected alert. See `ssl_test_ctx.c` for known
+ values.
+
+* Protocol - expected negotiated protocol. One of
+ SSLv3, TLSv1, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2.
+
+## Configuring the client and server
+
+The client and server configurations can be any valid `SSL_CTX`
+configurations. For details, see the manpages for `SSL_CONF_cmd`.
+
+Give your configurations as a dictionary of CONF commands, e.g.
+
+```
+server => {
+ "CipherString" => "DEFAULT",
+ "MinProtocol" => "TLSv1",
+}
+```
+
+### Default server and client configurations
+
+The default server certificate and CA files are added to the configurations
+automatically. Server certificate verification is requested by default.
+
+You can override these options by redefining them:
+
+```
+client => {
+ "VerifyCAFile" => "/path/to/custom/file"
+}
+```
+
+or by deleting them
+
+```
+client => {
+ "VerifyCAFile" => undef
+}
+```
+
+## Adding a test to the test harness
+
+Add your configuration file to `test/recipes/80-test_ssl_new.t`.
+
+## Running the tests with the test harness
+
+```
+HARNESS_VERBOSE=yes make TESTS=test_ssl_new test
+```
+
+## Running a test manually
+
+These steps are only needed during development. End users should run `make test`
+or follow the instructions above to run the SSL test suite.
+
+To run an SSL test manually from the command line, the `TEST_CERTS_DIR`
+environment variable to point to the location of the certs. E.g., from the root
+OpenSSL directory, do
+
+```
+$ TEST_CERTS_DIR=test/certs test/ssl_test test/ssl-tests/01-simple.conf
+```
+
+or for shared builds
+
+```
+$ TEST_CERTS_DIR=test/certs util/shlib_wrap.sh test/ssl_test \
+ test/ssl-tests/01-simple.conf
+```
+
+Note that the test expectations sometimes depend on the Configure settings. For
+example, the negotiated protocol depends on the set of available (enabled)
+protocols: a build with `enable-ssl3` has different test expectations than a
+build with `no-ssl3`.
+
+The Perl test harness automatically generates expected outputs, so users who
+just run `make test` do not need any extra steps.
+
+However, when running a test manually, keep in mind that the repository version
+of the generated `test/ssl-tests/*.conf` correspond to expected outputs in with
+the default Configure options. To run `ssl_test` manually from the command line
+in a build with a different configuration, you may need to generate the right
+`*.conf` file from the `*.conf.in` input first.