Linux Test Tools

The purpose of this Linux Test Tools Table is to provide the open-source community with a comprehensive list of tools commonly used for testing the various components of Linux.
My hope is that the community will embrace and contribute to this list making it a valuable addition to the Linux Test Project.

Please feel free to send additions, updates or suggestions to Jeff Martin. Last update:07/12/06

Cluster

HINT

allows fair comparisons over extreme variations in computer architecture, absolute performance, storage capacity, and precision.

It's listed as a Past Projectwith a link to http://hint.byu.edu but I have not been able to find where it is being maintained. If you know, please drop me a note.

Code Coverage Analysis

gcov	Code analysis tool for profiling code and determining: 1) how often each line of code executes, 2) what lines of code are actually executed, 3.) how much computing time each section of codeuses
lcov	LCOV is an extension of GCOV, a GNU tool which provides information about what parts of a program are actually executed (i.e. "covered") while running a particular test case. The extension provides HTML output and support for large projects.

Database

DOTS	Database Opensource Test Suite
dbgrinder	perl script to inflict stress on a mysql server
OSDL Database Testsuite	OSDL Database Testsuite

Debug

Dynamic Probes	Dynamic Probes is a generic and pervasive debugging facility.
Kernel Debug (KDB)	KDB is an interactive debugger built into the Linux kernel. It allows the user to examine kernel memory, disassembled code and registers.
Linux Kernel Crash Dump	LKCD project is designed to help detect, save and examine system crashes and crash info.
Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT)	The Linux Trace Toolkit is a fully-featured tracing system for the Linux kernel.

Defect Tracking

Bugzilla

allows individuals or groups of developers to keep track of outstanding bugs in their product effectively

Desktop/GUI Libraries

Android	open source testing tool for GUI programs
ldtp	GNU/Linux Desktop Testing Project

Event Logging

included tests

Various tests are included in the tarball

Filesystems

Bonnie	Bonnie++ is test suite, which performs several hard drive/ filesystem tests.
dbench	Filesystem benchmark that generates good filesystem load
fs_inode	Part of the LTP: This test creates several subdirectories and files off of two parent directories and removes directories and files as part of the test.
fs_maim	Part of the LTP: a set of scripts to test and stress filesystem and storage management utilities
IOZone	Filesystem benchmark tool (read, write, re-read, re-write, read backwards, read strided, fread, fwrite, random read, pread, aio_read, aio_write)
lftest	Part of the LTP:lftest is a tool/test designed to create large files and lseek from the beginning of the file to the end of the file after each block write. This test verifies large file support and can be used to generate large files for other filesystem tests.	Files up to 2Tb have been created using this tool. This test is VERY picky about glibc version.
LTP	The Linux Test Project is a collection of tools for testing the Linux kernel and related features.
PostMark	Filesystem benchmark that simulates load generated by enterprise applications such as email, news and web-based commerce.
stress	puts the system under a specified amount of load
mongo	set of the programs to test linux filesystems for performance and functionality
fsx	File system exerciser from Apple.	The test is most effective if you let it run for a minute or two, so that it overlaps the periodic sync that most Unix systems do.
xdd	Storage I/O Performance Characterization tool that runs on most UNIX-like systems and Windows.	Has been around since 1992 and is in use at various government labs.

Harnesses

Cerberus	The Cerberus Test Control System(CTCS) is a free (freedom) test suite for use by developers and others to test hardware. It generates good filesystem stress in the process.
STAF	The Software Testing Automation Framework (STAF) is an open source framework designed to improvethe level of reuse and automation in test cases and test environments.

I/O & Storage

tiobench	Portable, robust, fully-threaded I/O benchmark program
xdd	Storage I/O Performance Characterization tool that runs on most UNIX-like systems and Windows.	Has been around since 1992 and is in use at various government labs.

Kernel System Calls

crashme	a tool for testing the robustness of an operating environment using a technique of "Random Input" response analysis
LTP	The Linux Test Project is a collection of tools for testing the Linux kernel and related features.

Network

Connectathon NFS Testsuite	This testsuite tests the NFS Protocol
ISIC	ISIC is a suite of utilities to exercise the stability of an IP Stack and its component stacks
LTP	The Linux Test Project has a collection of tools for testing the network components of the Linux kernel.
netperf	Netperf is a benchmark that can be used to measure the performance of many different types of networking.
NetPIPE	Variable time bench mark, ie, it measures network performance using variable sized communiation transfers
TAHI	Providesinteroperability and conformance tests for IPv6
VolanoMark	A java chatroom benchmark/stress
UNH IPv6 Tests	there are several IPv6 tests on this site
Iperf	for measuring TCP and UDP bandwidth performance

Network Security

Kerberos Test suite

These tests are for testing Kerberos clients (kinit,klist and kdestroy) and Kerberized Applications, ftp and telnet.

Other

cpuburn

This program was designed by Robert Redelmeier to heavily loadCPU chips.

Performance

contest	test system responsiveness by running kernel compilation under anumber of different load conditions
glibench/clibench	benchmarking tool to check your computer CPU and hard disk performance
lmbench	Suite of simple, portable benchmarks
AIM Benchmark	Performance benchmark
unixbench	Performance benchmark based on the early BYTE UNIX Benchmarks	"retired" since about 1997, but still used by some testers

Scalability

dbench	Used for dcache scalability testing
Chat	Used for file_struct scalability testing
httperf	Used for dcache scalability testing

Scheduler

LTP	The Linux Test Project is a collection of tools for testing the Linux kernel and related features.	sched_stress and process_stress
VolanoMark	A java chatroom benchmark/stress	VolanoMark has been used to stress the scheduler.

SCSI Hardening

Bonnie	Bonnie is test suite, which performs several hard drive and filesystem tests.
LTP	The Linux Test Project is a collection of toolsfor testing the Linux kernel and related features.	disktest
dt	dt (Data Test) is a generic data test program used to verify proper operation of peripherals, file systems, device drivers, or any data stream supported by the operating system

Security

Nessus

remote security scanner

Standards

LSB

Test suites used for LSB compliance testing

Stream Controlled Transmission Protocol

LTP

The Linux Test Project is a collection of tools for testing the Linux kernel and related features.

System Management

sblim

The "SBLIM Reference Implementation (SRI)" is a component of the SBLIM project. Its purposes are (among others): (1) easily set up, run and test systems management scenarios based on CIM/CIMOM technology (2) test CIM Providers (on local and/or remote Linux machines)

Threads

LTP	The Linux Test Project is a collection of tools for testing the Linux kernel and related features.
VSTHlite	Tests for compliance with IEEE POSIX 1003.1c extensions (pthreads).

USB

usbstress

Sent to us by the folks at Linux-usb.org

Version Control

cvs	the dominant open-source network-transparent version control system
BitKeeper	BK/Pro is a scalable configuration management system, supporting globally distributed development, disconnected operation, compressed repositories, change sets, and repositories as branches.	Read the licensing info
Subversion

VMM

vmregress	regrssion, testing and benchmark tool
LTP	The Linux Test Project is a collection of tools for testing the Linux kernel and related features.
memtest86	A thorough real-mode memory tester
stress	puts the system under a specified amount of load
memtest86+	fork / enhanced version of the memtest86
memtester	Utility to test for faulty memory subsystem

Web Server

Hammerhead	Hammerhead is a web server stress tool that can simulate multiple connections and users.
httperf	httperf is a popular web server benchmark tool for measuring web server performance
siege	Siege is an http regression testing and benchmarking utility.
PagePoker	for loadtesting and benchmarking web servers