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The SSL tests are fairly different from most test suites. Add some high-level documentation so people know where to start. Change-Id: Ie5ea108883dca82675571a3025b3fbc4b9d66da9 Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/7890 Reviewed-by: Adam Langley <agl@google.com>
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# BoringSSL SSL Tests
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This directory contains BoringSSL's protocol-level test suite.
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Testing a TLS implementation can be difficult. We need to produce invalid but
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sufficiently correct handshakes to get our implementation close to its edge
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cases. TLS's cryptographic steps mean we cannot use a transcript and effectively
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need a TLS implementation on the other end. But we do not wish to litter
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BoringSSL with options for bugs to test against.
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Instead, we use a fork of the Go `crypto/tls` package, heavily patched with
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configurable bugs. This code, along with a test suite and harness written in Go,
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lives in the `runner` directory. The harness runs BoringSSL via a C/C++ shim
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binary which lives in this directory. All communication with the shim binary
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occurs with command-line flags, sockets, and standard I/O.
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This strategy also ensures we always test against a second implementation. All
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features should be implemented twice, once in C for BoringSSL and once in Go for
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testing. If possible, the Go code should be suitable for potentially
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upstreaming. However, sometimes test code has different needs. For example, our
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test DTLS code enforces strict ordering on sequence numbers and has controlled
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packet drop simulation.
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To run the tests manually, run `go test` from the `runner` directory. It takes
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command-line flags found at the top of `runner/runner.go`. The `-help` option
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also works after using `go test -c` to make a `runner.test` binary first.
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If adding a new test, these files may be a good starting point:
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* `runner/runner.go`: the test harness and all the individual tests.
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* `runner/common.go`: contains the `Config` and `ProtocolBugs` struct which
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control the Go TLS implementation's behavior.
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* `test_config.h`, `test_config.cc`: the command-line flags which control the
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shim's behavior.
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* `bssl_shim.cc`: the shim binary itself.
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