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Unit and regression testing
EasyBuild is tested rigorously to try and ensure high-quality code.
Unit tests should be added (if possible) for each added feature. Adding more unit tests should be done by creating a new test module, adding a suite() method which returns a TestSuite object with all the testcases in it.
In test/{framework/easyblocks/easyconfigs}/suite.py
you should add it to the list of modules then, so it will be included when somebody runs the suite.
For every push to the master
and develop
branches of the easybuild-framework
, easybuild-easyblocks
and easybuild-easyconfigs
repositories, a set of unit tests is run, possibly triggering the unit tests in another repository (easybuild-framework
triggers easybuild-easyblocks
, easybuild-easyblocks
triggers easybuild-easyconfigs
).
To run the easybuild-framework
unit tests yourself, simply execute python -m test.framework.suite
on an installed version of EasyBuild. This should give you output like below:
$ python -m test.framework.suite
Running tests...
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..............................................................
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Ran 62 tests in 609.384s
OK
Generating XML reports...
Note: you will need either the json
or simplejson
Python module.The json
module is available since Python 2.6, for older Python versions your best bet is to install simplejson
(see https://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson). For Python 2.4, you will need to install an old simplejson
version, since the simplejson
3.x required at least Python 2.5 (see https://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson/2.1.0).
The unit tests for easybuild-easyblocks
and easybuild-easyconfigs
are run in a very similar way, see below.
Currently, the unit tests for easybuild-easyblocks
consist of instantiating an easyblock object for each of the available easyblock modules. Functional testing of easyblocks is done as a part of a regression test (see below). Running this suite of unit tests requires that easybuild-framework
is available in $PYTHONPATH
.
$ python -m test.easyblocks.suite
Running tests...
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..................................................................................................................
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Ran 114 tests in 40.291s
OK
Generating XML reports...
For the easybuild-easyconfigs
repository, every easyconfig file is parsed and an easyblock for that easyconfig is instantiated as a sanity check. Next to this, a full dependency graph of the full set of available easyconfigs is constructed, to verify whether all dependencies can be resolved. For these unit tests, both easybuild-framework
and easybuild-easyblocks
need to be available in $PYTHONPATH
.
$ python -m test.easyconfigs.suite
Running tests...
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Ran 950 tests in 30.966s
OK
With older Python 2.x versions, e.g. Python 2.4.x, you'll need to use a slightly different approach, since the -m
option is not (fully) supported yet, e.g.:
python test/framework/suite.py
A more thorough test that also requires significantly more resources is a regression test, which consists of building all easyconfig files distributed with EasyBuild, in a pristine install directory.
To run a full regression test: first append the easybuild directory to the PYTHONPATH. Also, set your MODULEPATH to something which doesn't have dependencies installed.
Output will be placed in the current directory in easybuild-test-TIMESTAMP. You can aggregate the results into a single xml file. by using the -a option.
Make sure to populate the easybuild_config.py with settings that make sense for the regression tester.
The final xml will contain JUnit-compatible xml. Per build there is either a failure (with reason). the buildstats for each application and also a summary in a top comment.
A regtest is submitted using the following command:
eb --regtest --robot -ld
Note: this assumes that the command is executed on a system that has can submit jobs to a PBS server (--regtest
uses --job
in the background).
The results for both the unit tests and regression test are available through the Jenkins continuous integration server at UGent, see http://jenkins1.ugent.be/view/EasyBuild.
Jenkins also takes care automatically running the unit tests on every push to either the master
or develop
branch of the easybuild-framework
, easybuild-easyblocks
and easybuild-easyconfigs
repositories.
The regression tests are triggered manually, and Jenkins is triggered to pull in the test results after the regression test has completed.
For this, the following script is used:
#!/bin/bash
if [ ! -z $PBS_OWORKDIR ]
then
cd $PBS_OWORKDIR
fi
export PYTHONPATH=$VSC_SCRATCH/easybuild_easy_installed/lib/python2.4/site-packages
export PATH=$PATH:$VSC_SCRATCH/easybuild_easy_installed/bin
cd $EASYBUILDPREFIX
if [ -d software/WIEN2k ]
then
chmod -R 755 software/WIEN2k
fi
rm -rf software modules ebfiles_repo
export MODULEPATH=$EASYBUILDPREFIX/modules/all
cd -
outfile="full_regtest_`date +%Y%m%d`_submission.txt"
eb --regtest --robot -ld 2>&1 | tee $outfile
results_dir=`grep "Submitted regression test as jobs, results in" $outfile | tail -1 | sed 's@.*/@@g'`
after_anys=`qstat | grep ^[0-9] | sed 's/^\([0-9]*\).*/\1/g' | tr '\n' ':' | sed 's/^/afterany:/g'`
echo "after_anys: $after_anys"
qsub -W depend=$after_anys << EOF
cd $PWD
# aggregate results
out=`eb --aggregate-regtest=$results_dir`
ec=$?
if [ $ec -ne 0 ]; then echo "Failed to aggregate regtest results!"; exit $ec; fi
fn=`echo $out | sed 's/.* //g'`
datestamp=`date +%Y%m%d`
outfn="~/easybuild-full-regtest_${datestamp}.xml"
# move to home dir with standard name
mv $fn $outfn
ec=$?
if [ $ec -ne 0 ]; then echo "Failed to move regtest result for Jenkins!"; exit $ec; fi
echo "Aggregate test results made available for Jenkins in $outfn"
# trigger Jenkins test to pull in aggregated regtest result
wget https://jenkins1.ugent.be/view/EasyBuild/job/easybuild-full-regtest_develop/build?token=TOKEN &> /dev/null
echo "Triggered Jenkins to pull in regtest results."
EOF
Note: the TOKEN
needs to be replaced with the actual token that allows to trigger the Jenkins test easybuild-full-regtest_develop
. Contact the EasyBuild team if you want to run a regression test and make Jenkins pull back the results.