irctest

This project aims at testing interoperability of software using the IRC protocol, by running them against test suites and making different software communicate with each other.

It is very young and does not contain a lot of test cases yet.

The big picture

This project contains:

• IRC protocol test cases
• small wrappers around existing software to run tests on them (only Limnoria, Sopel, and InspIRCd for the moment)

Wrappers run software in temporary directories, so running irctest should have no side effect, with the exception of Sopel.

Prerequisites

Install irctest and dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/ProgVal/irctest.git
cd irctest
pip3 install --user -r requirements.txt
python3 setup.py install --user

Add ~/.local/bin/ to your PATH if it is not.

export PATH=$HOME/.local/bin/:$PATH

Run tests

To run tests with Limnoria:

pip3 install --user limnoria
python3 -m irctest irctest.controllers.limnoria

To run tests with Sopel:

pip3 install --user sopel
mkdir ~/.sopel/
python3 -m irctest irctest.controllers.sopel

To run tests with InspIRCd:

cd /tmp/
git clone https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd.git
cd inspircd
./configure --prefix=$HOME/.local/ --development
make -j 4
make install
python3 -m irctest irctest.controllers.inspircd

What irctest is not

A formal proof that a given software follows any of the IRC specification, or anything near that.

At best, irctest can help you find issues in your software, but it may still have false positives (because it does not implement itself a full-featured client/server, so it supports only “usual” behavior).