Implement testing plans

[mhchia]

What is wrong?

Per the request from the whiteblock team, we had a script to run docker containers for testing. Only two test cases are finished previously, and we should keep finishing the remaning test plans specified in https://notes.ethereum.org/Q_kQKXZUQD29YCshej1qPQ . IMO we can finish the python script and test in the local environment first, and integrate it into our ansible modules when we need to test with clouds.

How can it be fixed?

• Implement all test plans specified in the note.
• Have a more readable and reusable structure

[mhchia]

cc @NIC619 @ChihChengLiang @araskachoi @zscole

[mhchia]

[Note] Thought on measurement/metrics: we can probably measure through hopcount, instead of only the time. The advantage of this metric is we can focus more on the network topology and the dissemination of messages, instead of the real world environments.

One problem is we don't have the field hopcount in the current broadcasted Message. An easy solution is we can add it inside data.

[zscole]

Sorry for the late response! We will be back in the office on Wednesday and will continue the tests then!