Project 0: Introduction to Go concurrency and testing

Part A: Implementing a key-value messaging system

This repository contains the starter code that you will use as the basis of your key-value messaging system implementation. It also contains the tests that we will use to test your implementation, and an example 'server runner' binary that you might find useful for your own testing purposes.

If at any point you have any trouble with building, installing, or testing your code, the article titled How to Write Go Code is a great resource for understanding how Go workspaces are built and organized. You might also find the documentation for the go command to be helpful. As always, feel free to post your questions on Piazza as well.

Running the official tests

To test your submission, we will execute the following command from inside the src/github.com/cmu440/p0partA directory:

$ go test

We will also check your code for race conditions using Go's race detector by executing the following command:

$ go test -race

To execute a single unit test, you can use the -test.run flag and specify a regular expression identifying the name of the test to run. For example,

$ go test -race -test.run TestBasic1

Our reference solution was tested on the AFS clusters, so we strongly recommend that you test your solution on AFS before submitting.

Testing your implementation using srunner

To make testing your server a bit easier (especially during the early stages of your implementation when your server is largely incomplete), we have given you a simple srunner (server runner) program that you can use to create and start an instance of your KeyValueServer. The program simply creates an instance of your server, starts it on a default port, and blocks forever, running your server in the background.

To compile and build the srunner program into a binary that you can run, execute the three commands below (these directions assume you have cloned this repo to $HOME/p0):

$ export GOPATH=$HOME/p0
$ go install github.com/cmu440/srunner
$ $GOPATH/bin/srunner

The srunner program won't be of much use to you without any clients. It might be a good exercise to implement your own crunner (client runner) program that you can use to connect with and send messages to your server. We have provided you with an unimplemented crunner program that you may use for this purpose if you wish. Whether or not you decide to implement a crunner program will not affect your grade for this project.

You could also test your server using Netcat as you saw shortly in lecture (i.e. run the srunner binary in the background, execute nc localhost 9999, type the message you wish to send, and then click enter).

Part B: Testing a squarer

Once you have written your test, simply run

$ go test

in p0partB to confirm that the test passes on the correct implementation.

Submission

Submit an archive created by running make handin from src/github.com/cmu440. Do not change the names of the files (server_impl.go and squarer_test.go) as this will cause the tests to fail.

Using Go on AFS

For those students who wish to write their Go code on AFS (either in a cluster or remotely), you will need to set the GOROOT environment variable as follows (this is required because Go is installed in a custom location on AFS machines):

$ export GOROOT=/usr/local/depot/go