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PANTHER: Pluginizable testing environment for network protocols
We propose PANTHER, a modular and extensible framework for automated testing and verification of network protocols. PANTHER lets researchers plug in arbitrary protocol implementations, tester scripts, and network topologies to conduct experiments. Internally, it combines Microsoft’s Ivy tool for formal specification with the Shadow network simulator to handle time-varying behavior and real network conditions with reproducibility. Experiments are configured via simple YAML files and executed in Docker containers, ensuring easy deployment. We demonstrate PANTHER with a case study on the Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) protocol. All code and experiment setups are publicly available for replication.
期刊介绍:
Science of Computer Programming is dedicated to the distribution of research results in the areas of software systems development, use and maintenance, including the software aspects of hardware design.
The journal has a wide scope ranging from the many facets of methodological foundations to the details of technical issues andthe aspects of industrial practice.
The subjects of interest to SCP cover the entire spectrum of methods for the entire life cycle of software systems, including
• Requirements, specification, design, validation, verification, coding, testing, maintenance, metrics and renovation of software;
• Design, implementation and evaluation of programming languages;
• Programming environments, development tools, visualisation and animation;
• Management of the development process;
• Human factors in software, software for social interaction, software for social computing;
• Cyber physical systems, and software for the interaction between the physical and the machine;
• Software aspects of infrastructure services, system administration, and network management.