iptables-converter - tests

Untested software, that means software which isn’t accompanied by automated functional tests, is assumed to be broken by design. As iptables-converter is written in python, use of the popular unittests is done for your convienience.

Two testclasses are build: Chains_Test and Tables_Test accordingly to the two classes from which the iptables-converter script is build from.

Runing the tests with nosetests:

nosetests  ... --with-coverage
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Name                 Stmts   Miss  Cover   Missing
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iptables_converter     189     27    86%   25-26, 167-177, 240-253, 257-258
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Ran 23 tests in 0.019s

Chains_Test(unittest.TestCase)

The tests are enumerated to assure a predefined sequence of evaluating for cosmetical reason.

  1. A tables group is build first, filter is choosen. The predfined chains are given as parameter to the chains object, then their existance and the default policy is prooved.
  2. Setting policy drop into the filter chains is prooved for each chain, an invalid policy keyword is tried and exeption raising is pooved.
  3. Append a rule (a valid iptables-statment) into each chain, try to use an invalid filter group and the exception raising for that.
  4. Insert rules and then flush them, proof emptiness. Then check exception raising for flushing an invalid filter group
  5. Create a userdefind chain and verify existance in the objects dictionay. Check exception raising on creating a predefined chain.
  6. Inserting a rule into an empty chain necessarily fails, exception is verified.
  7. Inserting a rule into a nonexisting chain fails with exception.
  8. Inserting a rule into a nonempty chain works and is verified.
  9. Appending three rules to a chain works and their existance in chain object dictionary is prooved.
  10. Try to remove a predefined chain raises exception.
  11. This test is removed (commented) for reason of practicability. It’s intention was, to check if removal of a nonexisting chain raises exception. The code in the chain object is commented as well, as it is needed to achieve a clean status of the chains from any status. So it was not a good idea to raise an exception just for completeness.
  12. Creation and successful removal of an userdefined chain.
  13. Just look if an illegal command raises an exception.

Tables_Test(unittest.TestCase)

  1. Create a Tables object and verify the completeness of all the predefined chains.
  2. Verify correctness of a given iptables -t nat command.
  3. Verify correctness of a given iptables -t mangle command.
  4. Verify correctness of a given iptables -t raw command.
  5. Inserting a rule into a nonexisting chain raises exception.
  6. Try to read a nonexisting file raises exception.
  7. Read file reference-one and verify result.
  8. Read a file without iptables commands and verify result.