NAME¶

varnishtest - Test program for Varnish

SYNOPSIS¶

varnishtest [-hikLlqv] [-b size] [-D name=val] [-j jobs] [-n iter] [-t duration] file [file ...]

DESCRIPTION¶

The varnishtest program is a script driven program used to test the Varnish Cache.

The varnishtest program, when started and given one or more script files, can create a number of threads representing backends, some threads representing clients, and a varnishd process. This is then used to simulate a transaction to provoke a specific behavior.

The following options are available:

-D name=val Define macro for use in scripts

-p name=val Pass parameters to all varnishd command lines

file File to use as a script

If TMPDIR is set in the environment, varnishtest creates temporary vtc.* directories for each test in $TMPDIR, otherwise in /tmp.

SCRIPTS¶

The vtc syntax is documented at length in vtc(7). Should you want more examples than the one below, you can have a look at the Varnish source code repository, under bin/varnishtest/tests/, where all the regression tests for Varnish are kept.

An example:

varnishtest "#1029"
server s1 {


        rxreq


        expect req.url == "/bar"


        txresp -gzipbody {[bar]}


        rxreq


        expect req.url == "/foo"


        txresp -body {<h1>FOO<esi:include src="/bar"/>BARF</h1>}
} -start
varnish v1 -vcl+backend {


        sub vcl_backend_response {


                set beresp.do_esi = true;


                if (bereq.url == "/foo") {


                        set beresp.ttl = 0s;


                } else {


                        set beresp.ttl = 10m;


                }


        }
} -start
client c1 {


        txreq -url "/bar" -hdr "Accept-Encoding: gzip"


        rxresp


        gunzip


        expect resp.bodylen == 5


        txreq -url "/foo" -hdr "Accept-Encoding: gzip"


        rxresp


        expect resp.bodylen == 21
} -run

When run, the above script will simulate a server (s1) that expects two different requests. It will start a Varnish server (v1) and add the backend definition to the VCL specified (-vcl+backend). Finally it starts the c1-client, which is a single client sending two requests.

TESTING A BUILD TREE¶

Whether you are building a VMOD or trying to use one that you freshly built, you can tell varnishtest to pass a vmod_path to varnishd instances started using the varnish -start command in your test case:

varnishtest -p vmod_path=... /path/to/*.vtc

This way you can use the same test cases on both installed and built VMODs:

server s1 {...} -start
varnish v1 -vcl+backend {


    import wossname;


    ...
} -start
...

You are not limited to the vmod_path and can pass any parameter, allowing you to run a build matrix without changing the test suite. You can achieve the same with macros, but then they need to be defined on each run.

You can see the actual varnishd command lines in test outputs, they look roughly like this:

exec varnishd [varnishtest -p params] [testing params] [vtc -arg params]

Parameters you define with varnishtest -p may be overridden by parameters needed by varnishtest to run properly, and they may in turn be overridden by parameters set in test scripts.

There's also a special mode in which varnishtest builds itself a PATH and a vmod_path in order to find Varnish binaries (programs and VMODs) in the build tree surrounding the varnishtest binary. This is meant for testing of Varnish under development and will disregard your vmod_path if you set one.

If you need to test your VMOD against a Varnish build tree, you must install it first, in a temp directory for instance. With information provided by the installation's pkg-config(1) you can build a proper PATH in order to access Varnish programs, and a vmod_path to access both your VMOD and the built-in VMODs:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/path/to/install/lib/pkgconfig
BINDIR="$(pkg-config --variable=bindir varnishapi)"
SBINDIR="$(pkg-config --variable=sbindir varnishapi)"
PATH="SBINDIR:BINDIR:$PATH"
VMODDIR="$(pkg-config --variable=vmoddir varnishapi)"
VMOD_PATH="/path/to/your/vmod/build/dir:$VMODDIR"
varnishtest -p vmod_path="$VMOD_PATH" ...

SEE ALSO¶

HISTORY¶

The varnishtest program was developed by Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> in cooperation with Varnish Software AS. This manual page was originally written by Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <ssm@linpro.no> and updated by Kristian Lyngstøl <kristian@varnish-cache.org>.

COPYRIGHT¶

This document is licensed under the same licence as Varnish itself. See LICENCE for details.