Release test for Wowza Streaming Server plugin for Kulturarvsportalen

Context

The Wowza plugin has the following areas of responsibilities:

1. Authentification - Validate that a user is allowed to get a file streamed.

2. Locating streaming files - Locate the folders where the streaming files reside.

3. Start live streaming processes - Start a VLC process that streams video to a port, that Wowza forwards to a user.

4. Log usage statistics - Not yet implemented.

These are done in three different settings:

1. rtmp://<server:port>/kultur - Streaming of a tv program with user authentification.

2. rtmp://<server:port>/kultur_live - Live streaming of a tv program that is being transcodea with user authentification.

3. rtmp://<server:port>/kultur_preview - Streaming of a preview video of a tv program.

Prerequisites

In order to execute this test, the following prerequisites must be met:

1. Address of Ticket Issuer, ie. http://alhena:7880/authchecker-service/tickets

2. Address of streaming server, ie. rtmp://iapetus:1935

3. Source code of Wowza Streaming Server plugin checked out
4. Path to Wowza streaming server jar library
5. IP-address of client machine
6. Shard URL of streaming file.

How to issue tickets

1. Edit the file <wowza-plugin-src-code>/scripts/getTicket.sh and insert the information needed. Ie.

   #Location of Wowza's jar files on local machine
   WOWZA_LIB=../build-libs/wowza/jars/*
   TICKET_SERVER=http://alhena:7880/authchecker-service/tickets
   #IP-address of client machine:
   USERNAME=172.18.224.234
   RESOURCE=http://www.statsbiblioteket.dk/doms/shard/uuid:a0639529-124a-453f-b4ea-59f833b47333
   ORGANIZATION_ID=au.dk
   USER_ID=1x1
   CHANNEL_ID=tv2news
   PROGRAM_TITLE=Nyheder
   PROGRAM_START=2007-03-04T00:00:00+0100
   STREAMING_SERVER=rtmp://iapetus:1935
   FILENAME=Seinfeld.flv

2. Execute script that issues a ticket

   cd <wowza-plugin-src-code>/scripts
   ./getTicket.sh

3. The console window now shows URL and text. The strings can be copy-pasted into the SimpleVideoStreaming browser client.

Tests

Streaming video

Test that streaming a video is succesful

Test that an invalid ticket result in rickroll video

Live Streaming video

Test that live streaming a video is succesful

Test that an invalid ticket result in live rickroll video

Streaming Statistics

Video streams are logged on start

Live video streams are logged on start

Nothing is logged when session is invalid