How to Write and Run Tests in the New DPDK Test Framework – Luca Vizzaro & Patrick Robb
summary
The new DTS is a work‑in‑progress test framework that currently targets physical devices and requires two nodes (or loopback), scapy as the functional traffic generator, Docker/devcontainer or Python 3.10+ with poetry, and SSH keys mounted; the demo builds a Docker runner image, mounts the DPDK repo and runs a hello_world suite. Tests live under tests with filenames prefixed test_ and classes inheriting TestSuite (PascalCase); APIs include send_packet_and_capture, get_expected_packet, verify/verify_packets and packet generators. Upcoming: NIC capability skips, per‑test config, SR‑IOV/VM support and T‑Rex for perf.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to DTS
- 1:26Requirements for running DTS
- 3:32Running Hello World example
- 5:39Writing a test suite
- 14:25Upcoming changes and future work
- 16:55Resources and acknowledgments
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