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A framework for issuing tests to a given Buddycloud

This project is all about testing Buddycloud technology, as well as helping one check if a given Buddycloud installation is correctly setup and able to federate with the world.

A test version is currently being deployed at http://protocol.buddycloud.com!

Want to help? It's pretty easy!

First things, first. There are two test suites, each having different roles.

The installation test suite is composed of a series of tests to make sure a given Buddycloud installation is correctly setup. Otherwise, it won't be able to federate and socialize with others. DNS lookups, XMPP communication checks and other things like that are done to ensure the installation process was successful.

The integration test suite is composed, as the name suggests, of integration tests for the Buddycloud technology. These tests are necessary because they will exercise your Buddycloud installation enough so we can be safe that your Buddycloud will be able to federate and socialize with others.

Here's how you can add a new test to one of these suites. First, determine to which suite the new test is going to be added.

Determine which test suite you want to contribute to

You can pick either the installation or the integration suite. Please bear in mind the purposes of each test suite before adding a new test.

Create a new test file

Write a python test file (e.g named example.py) containing a function called testFunction.

As of now, this testFuncion must have the first parameter corresponding to the domain to be tested and an optional session parameter which some tests populate so that, say, channels created by one test can be referenced in another test. This is a not-so-good design. Later we plan to make every test actually execute its dependency tests all over again in a setUp/tearDown fashion -- no relying on collateral effects of previous tests.

Also, future versions may allow a more flexible approach for the parameter passing to testFunction.

Make sure your testFunction always returns a tuple with four elements in the following format:

(exit_status, briefing, message, output) where:

• exit_status type:int should be equal to 0 if test was successful or any other integer otherwise,

• briefing type:str should be a brief explanation of what happened during the test,

• message type:str should be a longer message with more information and

• output type:anything should be anything your test could output if you want this test's results to be reused by other tests, otherwise just return None

Important:

1. Your test runs within an execution_context folder with read/write permissions. Anything your test writes will be placed there (e.g. logs).

2. Your test can import any library that is installed in the server. If you need some other library to be installed, let us know.

3. Your test can import other testFuncions defined in other existing tests belonging to BOTH test suites as well! That means that even while tests are split into different test suites, they can be imported just as if they all belonged to the same suite.

Here's an example of a test that reuses the test defined at api_lookup.py:

from api_server_lookup import testFunction as apiLookup 
def testFunction(domain_url):
    (exit_status, briefing, message, output) = apiLookup(domain_url)

4. There is a suite_utils folder including utilitary files both test suites can reuse.

Declare that your test should be run as part of the test suite

Append a new line to the installation/installation_tests.cfg configuration file containing only the name of your new test file.

Important:

1. You can always prepend a hashtag to a line of the configuration file to make sure the test suite won't include that particular test.

Please send pull requests with new tests.