1. NDIS driver testing and certification
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HW-667P
NDIS driver testing and certification
Michael Nanakul
Senior Test Lead
Aniruddha Jahagirdar
SDET II
Microsoft Corporation
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2. Agenda
Part 1: LAN tests in the Windows Hardware Certification Kit improvements
Part 2: LAN Test Improvements
Part 3: NDISTest debugging

3. Networking that just works is essential for customers to have great Windows 8 experiences.

4. LAN Tests
Windows Hardware Certification Kit

5. We Listened To You Make the tests easier to run
Increase test reliability and effectiveness
Optimize runtime
Easy to automate
Easy to debug

6. LAN Test Topology Test Client SupportMachine Back-to-back
Backchannel Switch

7. Alternate LAN Test Topology
Storage
Test Client
Support Machine
Test Switch
Backchannel Switch

8. Windows Hardware Certification Kit
demo
LAN Device Testing
Windows Hardware Certification Kit

9. Other Environment Requirements
RSS requires >= 4 physical cores
Machines must saturate 90% of maximum link speed
QoS-required storage is capable of writing at 20% of maximum link speed
SR-IOV

10. Windows HCK Improvements
Granular jobs
Custom parameters and machine configuration expansion
Programmatic interface for automation
Lots of test reliability improvements

11. Related sessions
[659] Windows Hardware Certification Kit

12. Further reading and documentation
Windows Hardware Certification Kit documentation
The NDIS Blog –
NDISTest Contact info –
Tools for Testing Drivers
Windows Logo Program for Hardware: Overview
Windows Hardware Dev Center
Windows Dev Center

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The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.
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14. NDIS Driver Testing and Certification – Part 2
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667
NDIS Driver Testing and Certification – Part 2
Michael Nanakul
Senior Test Lead
Aniruddha Jahagirdar
SDET II
Microsoft Corporation
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The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

15. Networking that just works is essential for customers to have great Windows 8 experiences.

16. LAN Test Improvements

17. Run the LAN certification tests early during driver development

18. New Feature Test Suites
Quality of Service (QoS)
Single Root IO Virtualization (SR-IOV)
RDMA
Receive Segment Coalescing (RSC)

19. Other New Tests to Watch For
Standardized keywords
Generic NDIS miniport tests
Offload parity
Power requirements
New Wake-On-LAN tests

20. NDIS Filter Testing

21. Filter Testing Techniques
Utilize the NDISTest LAN tests
Filters for the Hyper-V Extensible Switch
Focus on plug-and-play
Utilize the device fundamentals tests

22. Related sessions
[433] Network Acceleration and Other NIC Technologies for the Data Center
[659] Windows Hardware Certification Kit

23. Further reading and documentation
Windows Hardware Certification Kit documentation
The NDIS Blog –
NDISTest Contact info –
Tools for Testing Drivers
Windows Logo Program for Hardware: Overview
Windows Hardware Dev Center
Windows Dev Center

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© 2011 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.
The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.
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The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

25. NDIS Driver Testing and Certification – Part 3
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667
NDIS Driver Testing and Certification – Part 3
Michael Nanakul
Senior Test Lead
Aniruddha Jahagirdar
SDET II
Microsoft Corporation
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The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

26. NDISTest Debugging

27. Have you ever seen this?

28. …or a stack trace like this?
0: kd> k
Child-SP          RetAddr           Call Site
fffff880` fffff800`019332fb nt+0x8b4c0
fffff880` fffff800`0144df77 nt+0x54c2fb
fffff880` fffff800`014a30cd nt+0x66f77
fffff880`151698d0 fffff800`0144dcde nt+0xbc0cd
fffff880` fffff800`014aa104 nt+0x66cde
fffff880`1516a010 fffff800`014718c2 nt+0xc3104
fffff880`1516a6d0 fffff800`01470f73 nt+0x8a8c2
fffff880`1516a8b0 fffff800`01469c18 nt+0x89f73
fffff880`1516aa48 fffff800`015442e5 nt+0x82c18
fffff880`1516aa50 fffff880`1692d9ef nt+0x15d2e5
fffff880`1516aaa0 fffff880`1694bd79 ndprot630+0x8b9ef
fffff880`1516ab00 fffff880`1697d509 ndprot630+0xa9d79
fffff880`1516ab40 fffff880`169a1af7 ndprot630+0xdb509
fffff880`1516abc0 fffff800`017aaa18 ndprot630+0xffaf7
fffff880`1516ac10 fffff800`014bb346 nt+0x3c3a18
fffff880`1516ac ` nt+0xd4346

29. Driver developers are now empowered to easily debug NDISTest breakpoints

30. Debugging NDISTest Protocol Breakpoints
demo
Debugging NDISTest Protocol Breakpoints

31. Debugging NDISTest and Drivers
Utilize the NDISTest protocol options to manually debug protocol breakpoints during tests
Leverage the public symbol files and ndtkd debugger extension for debugging ndprot assertions
NDIS WPP Tracing
NDISKD enhancements
NetBufferList Tracking

32. Related sessions
SAC-433T: Network acceleration and other NIC technologies for the data center
HW-659T: Certifying hardware with the Windows Hardware Certification Kit

33. Further reading and documentation
Windows Hardware Certification Kit documentation
The NDIS Blog –
NDISTest Contact info –
Tools for Testing Drivers
Windows Logo Program for Hardware: Overview
Windows Hardware Dev Center
Windows Dev Center

34. thank you Feedback and questions http://forums.dev.windows.com
Session feedback

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The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.
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The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.