DICE
DICE is a black-box random testing framework.
Goals and Objectives
- Provides professional random testing.
- Apply to your project with minimal effort.
- Human friendly configuration process.
Getting Started
DICE is currently in experimental stage and not ready for release yet. So easy-install or pip way of installation is not available now. The only way to install DICE is from the source code.
Install from Git Source
To install DICE from git repository, clone the source code to local first:
git clone https://github.com/Hao-Liu/dice cd dice
Then install dependencies from pip:
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
Install DICE:
sudo python setup.py install
Run the Example Project
Build the example binary from source:
cd examples/pyramid gcc pyramid.c -o pyramid
Run DICE on the example project:
dice
This will open a ncurses TUI shows the statistics of results by generating the option randomly.
The left panel is a stat panel shows the stat of error message patterns categorized by the exit status and whether error message matches expectation defined in the constraint file.
The central panel is a list panel lists recent called command lines matches the error message pattern selecting in the stat panel.
The right panel is a detail panel show the detailed information of the selected command in list panel includes command line, standard output and standard error.
The follow key press allowing navigation through the panels.
| Key | Function |
|---|---|
| TAB | Toggle current working panel |
| Q | Exit DICE |
| P | Pause/Resume execution |
| J | Select next item |
| K | Select previous item |
| M | Merge stat by regex pattern |
| ^W | Save current input |
| ^D | Cancel current input |
Documentation
All documentation is online at https://dice.readthedocs.org/en/latest/.
Contribute
Bug reporting, issues and patches to both code and documentation are welcome on Github.
Contribution Guideline: http://dice.readthedocs.org/en/latest/contribute.html