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iptables is the most recent entry in a series of Linux firewall services. Because iptables is a security product in widespread use, software faults are a serious concern and firewall testing is an important activity. Firewall testing is hard because there are many parameters, resulting in a huge number of possible parameter combinations. We present a methodology for iptables regression testing based on test templates: parameterized test cases. Templates have been developed for the main iptables rules along with algorithms for generating combinations of template parameters. A GUI has also been developed, integrating the templates and the tuple generation algorithms.
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 Additional Information
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Citation:
Yong Du, Daniel Hoffman,
"PBit — A Pattern-Based Testing Framework for iptables,"
cnsr,
pp. 107-112,
Second Annual Conference on Communication Networks and Services Research (CNSR'04),
2004
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