DPDK Summit 2025

The DPDK test suite (DTS) is a testing framework and set of end to end tests for DPDK which can be employed by DPDK developers and by labs performing CI testing. Given a minimal user configuration of the DPDK options and nodes to test, DTS will control the nodes, and test different DPDK workloads according to the test definitions. The framework will run a subset of the tests based on NIC capability checks completed at runtime, and provide a standard set of testrun logs and testrun result summaries.
In this talk, I will share how we have been leveraging DTS in the Community Lab. It is intended both to demonstrate a practical example of how the testing framework can and should be used, as well as provide an opportunity to discuss lessons learned over the past year and the development targets going forward for the DTS group. At DPDK summit 2024 there was a DTS presentation given which explained some of the DTS APIs exposed to testsuite writers, and explained how writing test suites worked. Ideally this talk will follow up on and compliment that talk by providing a real world example of DTS usage.

Requested time: 25 minutes (20 minute talk, 5 minutes for questions)