woop/test/consensus_testplan.md

testplan for consensus

incorrect data

• wrong signature
• construct incorrect consensus messages

timeout

• leader timeout in normal phase
• new leader timeout in viewchange phase
• multiple new leaders timeout in a row (m < n/3)
• two newview messages arrive at similar time
• a single node stucked at viewchange mode. e.g. new node stucked in view change while others move on

malicious

• leader broadcasts different blocks in announce phase
• leader send different subsets of prepared signature in prepare phase
• new leader doesn't send prepared message from previous view
• new leader 't send inconsistent announce message from previous view

others

• more than n/3 validators offline and restart after a while, recover the network