1intro.tex

   1 \subsection{Objectives}
   2 %1, 2
   3 The objective of this document is to provide an approach for testing a
   4 particular implementation of \textit{Transmission Control Protocol} (TCP). TCP
   5 is a host-to-host protocol that provides a reliable communication.
   6
   7 This testing approach can be used by either an internal test team or an
   8 independent testing team. The test effort's goal is to become confident about
   9 the conformance of the implementation to the specification created by
  10 \textit{The Internet Engineering Task Force}
  11 (IETF)\footnote{\url{http://www.ietf.org}} as document
  12 \textit{RFC793}~\cite{rfc793}.
  13
  14 \subsection{SUT}
  15 %3,4
  16 The \textit{System under test} (SUT) is a
  17 Java\footnote{\url{http://www.java.com}} TCP driven echo server that executed
  18 on a virtualized Ubuntu system\footnote{\url{http://www.ubuntu.com}} running on
  19 the Linux kernel\footnote{\url{http://www.kernel.org}} version $3.13$. To test
  20 the error behaviour custom iptables output policies have to be
  21 set~\ref{listing:iptables}.
  22
  23 \begin{lstlisting}[label={listing:iptables},caption={settings iptables}]
  24 Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
  25 target  prot    opt     source  destination
  26 ACCEPT  tcp     --      anywhere        anywhere        tcp flags:PSH/PSH
  27 DROP    tcp     --      anywhere        anywhere        tcp flags:RST/RST
  28 \end{lstlisting}
  29
  30 %5. Risks