Automation Framework for BC Network deployment and evaluation

This is an on-going work, which is near the end.

Motivations

Many developers experience difficulties in setting up a testnet. An easy to setup, ‘one-click testnet’ may be a solution.¹

Easy way of forking mainnets for testing purposes, a way to deploy a test net in one click would be nice.[#150]

The simulators that BCS developers currently have are limited and are unable to simulate a complex and hostile real world environment. While they have testnets, but the scales and complexities of testnets are no where closer to a mainnet. Few recent works (Stoykov et al. 2017;Chenetal. 2017) have attempted to build such simulators, but no satisfactory solution exists yet. ¹