SIPssert Testing Framework Tracing

This page describes the way the framework traces networking traffic for each scenario being run.

For each scenario, the framework takes a pcap capture of the communication for that scenario and stores it in the capture.pcap file in the scenario's logs directory.

The data that is being captured depends on the networking mode the scenario runs with. If it is using a host network adapter, then the entire traffic of the host is traced. Otherwise, if a bridged adaptor is being used, then only the traffic going through the bridge network device is being traced.

By default tracer is always on. You can change this behavior by disabling tracer on global, test_set or scenario level with desc order priority. Disabling tracer on global level has highest priority.

1. To disable tracer on global level by passing command line arg, use:

-x|--no-trace - do not trace call

2. To disable tracer on global level by defining configuration parameter in config file, edit:

run.yml

tracer: off

3. To disable tracer on test_set level, edit config.yml on test_set level:

config.yml

tracer: off

4. To disable tracer on scenario level, edit scenario.yml:

scenario.yml

tracer: off