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# Integration Tests of Cockpit This directory contains automated integration tests for Cockpit, and the support files for them. To run the tests on Fedora, refer to the [HACKING](../HACKING.md) guide for installation of all of the necessary build and test dependencies. There's no need to trigger a build manually - the test suite preparation step below will handle that. If test failures are encountered that look like they may be related to problems with nested virtualization, refer to [this Fedora guide](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_enable_nested_virtualization_in_KVM) for more details and recommendations on ensuring it is enabled correctly. ## Introduction Before running the tests, ensure Cockpit has been built where the test suite expects to find it (do NOT run the build step as root): $ ./bots/image-prepare To run the integration tests run the following (do NOT run the integration tests as root): $ ./test/verify/run-tests The tests will automatically download the VM images they need, so expect that the initial run may take a couple of hours (there are quite a few images to retrieve for different scenario tests). Alternatively you can run an individual test like this: $ ./bots/image-prepare $ ./test/verify/check-session To see more verbose output from the test, use the --verbose and/or --trace flags: $ ./test/verify/check-session --verbose --trace In addition if you specify `--sit`, then the test wail wait on failure and allow you to log into cockpit and/or the test instance and diagnose the issue. An address will be printed of the test instance. $ ./test/verify/check-session --trace --sit ## Details The verify test suite is the main test suite: * test/verify/run-tests: Run all tests * test/verify/check-*: Run the selected tests ## Test Configuration You can set these environment variables to configure the test suite: TEST_OS The OS to run the tests in. Currently supported values: "centos-7" "debian-stable" "debian-testing" "fedora-24" "fedora-25" "fedora-26" "fedora-atomic" "fedora-testing" "rhel-7" "ubuntu-1604" "fedora-26" is the default (testvm.py) TEST_DATA Where to find and store test machine images. The default is the same directory that this README file is in. TEST_JOBS How many tests to run in parallel. The default is 1. ## Test machines and their images The code under test is executed in one or more dedicated virtual machines, called the "test machines". Fresh test machines are started for each test. To pull all the needed images for a given commit, use: $ bots/image-download A test machine runs a "test machine image". Such a test machine image contains the root filesystem that is booted inside the virtual machine. A running test machine can write to its root filesystem, of course, but these changes are (usually) not propagated back to its image. Thus, you can run multiple test machines from the same image, at the same time or one after the other, and each test machine starts with a clean state. A test machine image is created with image-create, like so: $ bots/image-create -v fedora-24 The image will be created in $TEST_DATA/images/. In addition a link reference will be created in bots/images/. If you wish that others use this new image then you should commit the new reference link, and use `image-upload` to upload the new image. You would need to have Cockpit commit access to do this: $ bots/image-upload fedora-24 There is more than one test machine image. For example, you might want to test a scenario where Cockpit on one machine talks to FreeIPA on another, and you want those two machines to use different images. This is handled by passing a specific image to image-create and other scripts that work with test machine images. "fedora-NN" -- The basic image for running the development version of Cockpit. This is the default. "fedora-stock" -- A stock installation of Fedora, including the stock version of Cockpit. This is used to test compatibility between released versions of Cockpit and the development version. "ipa" -- A FreeIPA server. "openshift" -- An Openshift Origin server. A test machine image created by image-create doesn't contain any Cockpit code in it yet. You can build and install the currently checked out working copy of Cockpit like this: $ bots/image-prepare fedora-25 This either needs a configured/built tree (build in mock or a development VM) or cockpit's build dependencies installed. image-prepare will prepare a test machine image used for the next test run, but will not modify the saved version in $TEST_DATA/images. Use vm-reset to revert the test machine images for the next run to the versions in $TEST_DATA/images. A typical sequence of steps would thus be the following: $ bots/image-download $ test/vm-reset # Start over $ tools/make-rpms # Create rpms $ bots/image-install ... # Install code to test $ test/verify/check-... # Run some tests $ test/vm-reset # Start over $ bots/image-prepare ... # Install code to test $ bots/verify/check-... # Run some tests You can perform all of the above easily by doing `./testsuite-prepare` ## Running tests Once you have a test machine image that contains the version of Cockpit that you want to test, you can run tests by picking a program and just executing it: $ test/verify/check-connection Many of the verify tests can also be run against an already running machine. Although be aware that lots of the tests change state on the target machine. $ test/verify/check-connection --machine=10.1.1.2 The test/containers/ tests use the same VMs as the above test/verify/ ones. But they don't have a separate "prepare" step/script; instead, the first time you run test/containers/run-tests you need to use the "-i" option to build/install cockpit into the test VM. This needs to be done with a compatible TEST_OS (usually a recent "fedora-*"). ## Debugging tests If you pass the "-s" ("sit on failure") option to a test program, it will pause when a failure occurs so that you can log into the test machine and investigate the problem. A test will print out the commands to access it when it fails in this way. You can log into a running test-machine using ssh. If you add a snippet like this to your ~/.ssh/config then you'll be able to log in without authentication: Host 127.0.0.2 User root StrictHostKeyChecking no UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null IdentityFile ~/src/cockpit/test/common/identity You can also put calls to sit() into the tests themselves to stop them at strategic places. That way, you can run a test cleanly while still being able to make quick changes, such as adding debugging output to JavaScript. ## Guidelines for writing tests It is OK for a test to destroy the test machine OS installation, or otherwise modify it without cleaning up. For example, it is OK to remove all of /etc just to see what happens. The next test will get a pristine test machine. A fast running test suite is more important than independent, small test cases. Thus, it is OK for tests to be long. Starting the test machine is so slow that we should run as many checks within a single session as make sense. Still, within a long test, try to have independent sections, where each section returns the machine to more or less the state that it was in before the section. This makes it easier to run these sections ad-hoc when doing incremental development.