[Freeswitch-users] How to test Freeswitch before moving to production?

Yehavi Bourvine yehavi.bourvine at gmail.com
Wed Jan 23 21:02:16 MSK 2013


I was looking for somehting simpler: Create a "script" that will do some
calls in parallel in various sequences; it would be run while I watch the
BLFs. When I see that a test has ended with stuck BLF and it is consistent,
then I can strip down the test until I find where the problem is.

This test has two benefits: testing before moving to production, and if
fails - a way to repeat it.

                     Thanks, __Yehavi:


2013/1/23 Michael Collins <msc at freeswitch.org>

> After 4 years of working on the CudaTel team and hearing about SLA and BLF
> failures I can tell you that you need to see what's actually displayed on
> the phone itself, so checking the SIP traffic is not sufficient for a
> thorough test.
>
> If anyone is willing to crack open a phone and do some wiring they might
> be able to use a raspi or arduino and some components to monitor the phone.
> It's not the easiest thing in the world to do. That's why having a phone
> with an API would be so helpful. Autotesting would save enormous amounts of
> time in the long run.
>
> -MC
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:18 AM, Regis M <regis.freeswitch.org at tornad.net>wrote:
>
>> Maybe It's could be done with some sip session record that we can
>> playback to freeswitch ?
>>
>> In this mode, sofia will ignore or bypass time announce and sequence
>> number to anwer the correct/same thing as the first "real" recording
>> sequence.
>>
>> A sort of mod_sofia_test, one FS can read pcap or sip sequence and throw
>> mod_sofia_test "simulate" the endpoint to another or itself.
>> It could allow to record all phone session (register, makecall, holdcall,
>> transfer,...) and check FS still answer same things or corrects thing.
>>
>> A little hard maybe ? :)
>> I'm not a specialist of "sequence" or SIP change that occurs in a session
>> dialog between 2 calls from exactly the same device.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2013/1/23 Marcin Gozdalik <gozdal at gmail.com>
>>
>>> I'd doubt there is any VoIP phone with such support.
>>>
>>> But I'd guess writing tests querying actual phones wouldn't be much more
>>> work than:
>>> a) testing what kind of messages for BLF/MWI actually work on given phone
>>> b) testing (in ESL?) if FS sends good messages when certain actions are
>>> done (leaving voicemail or making a call)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/1/22 Michael Collins <msc at freeswitch.org>
>>>
>>>> That begs the question: does anyone know of any SIP phones that have an
>>>> API where you can poll the status of the lamps as well as what's on the
>>>> display, whether MWI is on, etc.? That would be epic.
>>>>
>>>> -MC
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Tim St. Pierre <
>>>> fs-list at communicatefreely.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hmm.  Good idea.
>>>>>
>>>>> I know that you can do this with Aastra phones, and possibly others.
>>>>>
>>>>> With the Aastra's, there is an XML API that you can use to push
>>>>> notifications, apps, etc.
>>>>>   You can push XML to the phone on an HTTP interface (there is an ACL
>>>>> to tell it where to
>>>>> allow it from), and you can initiate phone calls, as well as hang up,
>>>>> transfer, etc.
>>>>> There is also an action URI, so you can have the phone report what is
>>>>> coming in on caller
>>>>> ID, when it is ringing, hung up, etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know if you can get lamp status from this or not, but perhaps
>>>>> you could have a
>>>>> system where a pattern of calls is generated, and after many
>>>>> repetitions, the system calls
>>>>> or a human to check and see that the lights match an expected state.
>>>>>
>>>>> Just an idea anyway.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Tim
>>>>>
>>>>> Michael Collins wrote:
>>>>> > This test suite does not presently exist. I would love to see some
>>>>> work
>>>>> > done in this area.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > One challenge is that there are numerous kinds of devices that can
>>>>> > interop with FS so the test suite will need to have some way to
>>>>> handle
>>>>> > the various phone makes and models. Also, I don't know which hard
>>>>> > phones, if any, support automated testing. I would *love* to see some
>>>>> > sort of web/network API on various phones where you could poll the
>>>>> phone
>>>>> > to see the state of each SLA/BLF key as well as what's in the
>>>>> display.
>>>>> > That would make automated testing much cleaner. As it stands now,
>>>>> > testing BLFs is a tedious process of watching phones and waiting to
>>>>> see
>>>>> > if the lights do what they should be doing.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > If anyone has practical suggestions (nothing pie-in-the-sky, if you
>>>>> get
>>>>> > my meaning) then by all means share with the group.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > -MC
>>>>> >
>>>>> > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Yehavi Bourvine
>>>>> > <yehavi.bourvine at gmail.com <mailto:yehavi.bourvine at gmail.com>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> >     Hello,
>>>>> >
>>>>> >       We are running version 1.0.6; we did not upgrade for a long
>>>>> time
>>>>> >     due to some problems (mainly stuck BLFs) with the newer versions
>>>>> >     which have been corrected a few months ago.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >     A few weeks ago I pulled the latest GIT and did functional
>>>>> testings
>>>>> >     on our development system; all was OK.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >     Yesterday I moved our production system to that version. After a
>>>>> few
>>>>> >     hours the problems started: stuck BLFs, hangups, LUA scripts
>>>>> >     sometimes do not run. I had to revert back to the old version.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >     My question: Is there some simple test suite which I can test
>>>>> >     various scnarios on my development system? like, "call XX, while
>>>>> >     this call is active call YY which is monitored by XX and hangup",
>>>>> >     etc. It is hard to cover all cases manually, so I would like
>>>>> >     something automated.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >                        Thanks, __Yehavi:
>>>>> >
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