adding first draft of tests for all examples, they need comments and clean up, some could be made more rebust

examples/test/test_simpleperf.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+"""TEST"""
+
+import unittest
+import pexpect
+from time import sleep
+from mininet.log import setLogLevel
+from mininet.net import Mininet
+from mininet.node import CPULimitedHost
+from mininet.link import TCLink
+
+from mininet.examples.simpleperf import SingleSwitchTopo
+
+class testSimplePerf( unittest.TestCase ):
+    "Test ping with single switch topology (common code)."
+
+
+    def testE2E( self ):
+        results = [ "Results:", pexpect.EOF, pexpect.TIMEOUT ]
+        p = pexpect.spawn( 'python -m mininet.examples.simpleperf' )
+        index = p.expect( results, timeout=600 )
+        self.assertEqual( index, 0 )
+        p.wait()
+
+    def testTopo( self ):
+        topo = SingleSwitchTopo(n=4)
+        net = Mininet(topo=topo,
+                  host=CPULimitedHost, link=TCLink)
+        net.start()
+        h1, h4 = net.get('h1', 'h4')
+        h1.cmd( 'ping -c 1 %s' % h4.IP() )
+        net.stop()
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    setLogLevel( 'warning' )
+    unittest.main()