[tor-reports] boklm's report for April 2014

[isis]

Nicolas Vigier transcribed 2.6K bytes:
> Since last report:
> 
> - Test suite is now run automatically on new builds, when they have been
>   tagged on the git repository and are available on people.torproject.org[1]
> 
> - Result of tests run on new releases are now sent to tor-qa mailing list
> 
> - I added some tests to try connecting to tor using combinations of
>   bridges, PT (obfs3 or fte) and an http proxy.
> 
> - I got the tbb test suite running on Windows using Cygwin. I still need
>   to deploy this on some VM to have it run automatically.
> 
> - Looked at Mbox[2]: a sandboxing tool based on ptrace and seccomp/BPF.
>   This can be used in the test suite to get the list of files modified
>   by the browser after running a test, to check that it did not create
>   or modify files in unexpected places. This can also be used to log
>   all network connections, to check that everything goes through tor.
>   I was previously thinking about doing that using Docker, but now it
>   seems more simple with Mbox.

Mbox is neat! It looks like it's git based, right? Or at least includes some
sort of CVS system. Either way, great idea, testing for connections not
matching " -> 127.0.0.1" should be easy. :)

> [1]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-qa/2014-May/000405.html
> [2]: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/mbox/
> 

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