Re: Test library

[Patrik Karlsson <patrik () cqure net>]

Thanks David.
I will take your suggestions in to account when continuing my work on this.

//Patrik


On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 1:35 AM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 09:40:36PM -0500, Patrik Karlsson wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I've started some work on a Nmap testlib some time ago.
> > It does work and does some of what I hoped to achieve at the moment,
> > however, it's far from complete.
> > I thought I throw it out here to see the response and to determine
> whether
> > it's worth to continue working on.
> > It currently works by overriding the "normal" socket calls and thereby
> > allows a test section to feed messages to both the send and receive
> > functions. This is all happening in the Lua space and should be
> > "transparent" to the script itself.
> >
> > I've committed, at least I hope I did (me and git are not friends yet) my
> > code to a topic branch at github over here;
> > https://github.com/nevdull77/nmap/tree/testlib
> >
> > It currently has the testlib library with the patching of the socket code
> > and two scripts making use of it; http-title and vnc-info.
>
> It looks pretty nice to me. What's in testlib is really a generic mock
> socket class. I think that "testlib" should be more general and a mock
> socket should be one of the things it provides. There are probably some
> scripts that need other forms of input, for example the current time
> (like http-date which computes a delta) or other information about the
> port.
>
> It would be nice if there were a standard function name, for example
> setup_test, that the NSE engine could call in each script that has it
> defined. Then scripts wouldn't have to do their own argument checking.
> setup_test would create the mock objects and everything else that is
> needed, and then NSE would run the action.
>
> David Fifield



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