CIFS/SMB Compliance Test Automation Suite

The client is a multinational corporation that provides data storage, information security, virtualization, analytics, and cloud computing products. The client engaged Calsoft for creating a test automation suite to validate CIFS/SMB compliance. The engagement primarily involved:

Identifying defects in the CIFS stack running for non-MS CIFS client implementations
Implementing complex SMB2, 2.1, 2.2/3 protocols
Handling multiple parameters which resulted in a huge test matrix