The new soaking test approach for testing the SONiC network testbed

In the paper, we talked about the new Soaking Test method whose system will run for 7*24 hours under real network load to find out long-term problems, such as memory leak, memory rewrite, kernel resource leak, and measure the stability and reliability of existing network service operation in SONiC network testbed. We illustrate the three main components of the soaking test approach which include: 1) SONiC network testbed 2) Network services 3) Network monitoring. Our illustration shows that, in addition to automated test, RF test and PTF test, the soaking test is a good test approach for testing SONiC network testbed.