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+#!/bin/bash
+# Copyright 2019 Ciena Corporation
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# this script repeatedly invokes the e2e system test on a VOLTHA instance
+
+set -o pipefail
+
+if [ ! -r voltha-system-tests ]; then
+    git clone http://gerrit.opencord.org/voltha-system-tests voltha-system-tests
+fi
+
+delta() {
+    local LEFT=$(echo $1 | numfmt --from=iec)
+    local RIGHT=$(echo $2 | numfmt --from=iec)
+    local V=$(expr $LEFT - $RIGHT)
+    echo ${V#-}
+}
+
+average() {
+    local MIN=0
+    local MAX=0
+    local COUNT=0
+    local SUM=0
+    for V in $*; do
+        COUNT=$(expr $COUNT + 1)
+        SUM=$(expr $SUM + $V)
+        if [ $COUNT -eq 1 ]; then
+            MIN=$V
+            MAX=$V
+        else
+            if [ $V -lt $MIN ]; then
+                MIN=$V
+            elif [ $V -gt $MAX ]; then
+                MAX=$V
+            fi
+        fi
+    done
+    if [ $COUNT -gt 3 ]; then
+        SUM=$(expr $SUM - $MIN - $MAX)
+        COUNT=$(expr $COUNT - 2)
+    fi
+    if [ $COUNT -lt 1 ]; then
+        echo 0
+    else
+        echo $(expr $SUM / $COUNT)
+    fi
+}
+
+export WAIT_FOR_DOWN=y
+export TERM=
+
+COMPLETED=0
+COUNT_OK=0
+COUNT_FAIL=0
+COUNT_SINCE_FAIL=0
+FAILURE_LIST=()
+RSS_DIFFS=()
+KEY_DIFFS=()
+SIZE_DIFFS=()
+LOG=$(mktemp)
+while true; do 
+  RUN_TS=$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)
+  echo "START RUN $RUN @ $RUN_TS" | tee -a $LOG
+  DEPLOY_K8S=y WITH_BBSIM=y ./voltha up
+  # because BBSIM needs time
+  sleep 60
+  ETCD=$(kubectl -n voltha get pods | grep etcd-cluster | awk '{print $1}')
+  BEFORE_KEY_COUNT=$(kubectl -n voltha exec -ti $ETCD \
+      -- sh -c 'ETCDCTL_API=3 etcdctl get --command-timeout=60s --from-key=true --keys-only . | sed -e "/^$/d" | wc -l | tr -d "\r\n"')
+  BEFORE_SIZE=$(numfmt --to=iec \
+            $(kubectl -n voltha exec -ti $ETCD \
+            -- sh -c 'ETCDCTL_API=3 etcdctl endpoint status -w json' | tr -d '\r\n' | jq .[].Status.dbSize))
+  BEFORE_RSS=$(ps -eo rss,pid,cmd | grep /usr/local/bin/etcd | grep -v grep | cut -d\  -f1 | numfmt --to=iec)
+  (cd voltha-system-tests; make sanity-kind 2>&1 | tee $LOG)
+  FAIL=$?
+  AFTER_KEY_COUNT=$(kubectl -n voltha exec -ti $ETCD \
+      -- sh -c 'ETCDCTL_API=3 etcdctl get --command-timeout=60s --from-key=true --keys-only . | sed -e "/^$/d" | wc -l | tr -d "\r\n"')
+  AFTER_SIZE=$(numfmt --to=iec \
+            $(kubectl -n voltha exec -ti $ETCD \
+            -- sh -c 'ETCDCTL_API=3 etcdctl endpoint status -w json' | tr -d '\r\n' | jq .[].Status.dbSize))
+  AFTER_RSS=$(ps -eo rss,pid,cmd | grep /usr/local/bin/etcd | grep -v grep | cut -d\  -f1 | numfmt --to=iec)
+  if [ $FAIL -eq 0 ]; then
+      COUNT_OK=$(expr $COUNT_OK + 1)
+      COUNT_SINCE_FAIL=$(expr $COUNT_SINCE_FAIL + 1)
+      helm delete --purge bbsim
+      while [ $(kubectl get --all-namespaces pods,svc 2>&1 | grep -c bbsim) -gt 0 ]; do
+          sleep 3
+      done
+  else
+      COUNT_FAIL=$(expr $COUNT_FAIL + 1)
+      FAILURE_LIST+=($COUNT_SINCE_FAIL)
+      COUNT_SINCE_FAIL=0
+      DUMP_FROM=$RUN_TS ./voltha dump
+      ./voltha down
+  fi
+  echo "END RUN: $RUN @ $(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)" | tee -a $LOG
+  COMPLETED=$(expr $COMPLETED + 1)
+  MTBF=0
+  if [ ${#FAILURE_LIST[@]} -gt 0 ]; then
+      for V in ${FAILURE_LIST[@]}; do
+          MTBF=$(expr $MTBF + $V)
+      done
+      MTBF=$(expr $MTBF \/ ${#FAILURE_LIST[@]})
+  fi
+  
+  RSS_DIFFS+=($(delta $AFTER_RSS $BEFORE_RSS))
+  KEY_DIFFS+=($(delta $AFTER_KEY_COUNT $BEFORE_KEY_COUNT))
+  SIZE_DIFFS+=($(delta $AFTER_SIZE $BEFORE_SIZE))
+
+  echo "{" | tee -a $LOG
+  echo "    NumberOfRuns:  $COMPLETED," | tee -a $LOG
+  echo "    Success:       $COUNT_OK," | tee -a $LOG
+  echo "    Failed:        $COUNT_FAIL," | tee -a $LOG
+  echo "    SinceLastFail: $COUNT_SINCE_FAIL," | tee -a $LOG
+  echo "    MTBF:          $MTBF," | tee -a $LOG
+  echo "    FAILURES:      ${FAILURE_LIST[@]}," | tee -a $LOG
+  echo "    ETCd: {" | tee -a $LOG
+  echo "        KeyCount: {" | tee -a $LOG
+  echo "            Before: $BEFORE_KEY_COUNT," | tee -a $LOG
+  echo "            After:  $AFTER_KEY_COUNT," | tee -a $LOG
+  echo "            Average: $(average ${KEY_DIFFS[@]})," | tee -a $LOG
+  echo "        }," | tee -a $LOG
+  echo "        DbSize: {" | tee -a $LOG
+  echo "            Before: $BEFORE_SIZE," | tee -a $LOG
+  echo "            After: $AFTER_SIZE," | tee -a $LOG
+  echo "            Average: $(numfmt --to=iec $(average ${SIZE_DIFFS[@]}))," | tee -a $LOG
+  echo "        }" | tee -a $LOG
+  echo "        RSS: {" | tee -a $LOG
+  echo "            Before: $BEFORE_RSS," | tee -a $LOG
+  echo "            After: $AFTER_RSS," | tee -a $LOG
+  echo "            Average: $(numfmt --to=iec $(average ${RSS_DIFFS[@]}))," | tee -a $LOG
+  echo "        }" | tee -a $LOG
+  echo "    }" | tee -a $LOG
+  echo "}" | tee -a $LOG
+  if [ $FAIL -ne 0 ]; then
+      mkdir -p failures
+      cp $LOG failures/$(date -u +"%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ")-fail-output.log
+  fi
+done