Use QAToolKit to create ping tests

In the previous post, we used the QAToolKit’s Network Probes library to test the liveness of our HTTP services.

Now we will use the same library but a different probe - Ping Probe. Ping sends an ICMP echo request packet to the target host and waiting for an ICMP echo reply. This way, we can quickly test if a target host is up and can respond to Ping.

The QAToolKit library abstracts some of the code away and makes our code more compact. Here is a simple demonstrational program that will ping three hosts and addresses from the list.

//Copy and paste code
using QAToolKit.Engine.Probes.Probes;
using System;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace ConsoleApp2
{
    class Program
    {
        private static async Task Main(string[] args)
        {
            var hcs = new string[] {
                "google.com",
                "mihajakovac.com",
                "8.8.8.8"
            };

            foreach (var host in hcs)
            {
                var httpProbe = new PingProbe(host);
                var result = await httpProbe.Execute();
                Console.WriteLine($"{result.Success} = {result.RoundTripTime}ms - {host}");
            }
        }
    }
}

And here is the output:

Success = 17ms - google.com
Success = 193ms - mihajakovac.com
Success = 16ms - 8.8.8.8

You could also use that in your xUnit or NUnit tests. Simple & useful. :)