# Testing Device Configuration Templates

DevFeed: [Testing Device Configuration Templates](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/testing-device-configuration-templates-11007.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ipspace.net/2024/05/netlab-integration-tests/>)

Published: 2024-05-27T06:08:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [ipSpace.net blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ipspace-net-blog.md>)

Topics: [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [Automation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/automation.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>)

Tags: [automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automation.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [container](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/container.md>), [netlab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/netlab.md>), [network-automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network-automation.md>), [ospf](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ospf.md>), [routing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/routing.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>), [virtual-machines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/virtual-machines.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how to test network device configuration templates and the configurations they generate. It covers template errors, configuration validity, deployment behavior, and whether configurations produce the expected device behavior, with netlab integration tests presented as a way to exercise configuration-module and plugin features.

## Source excerpt

Many network automation solutions generate device configurations from a data model and deploy those configurations. Last week, we focused on "how do we know the device data model is correct?" This time, we'll take a step further and ask ourselves, "how do we know the device configurations work as expected?" There are four (increasingly complex) questions our tests should answer: Read more ...