Robottelo is a test suite which exercises The Foreman. All tests are automated, suited for use in a continuous integration environment, and data driven. There are three types of tests:

• UI tests, which rely on Selenium's WebDriver.
• CLI tests, which rely on Paramiko.
• API tests, which rely on Requests.

The following is only a brief setup guide for Robottelo. More extensive documentation is available at Read the Docs.

Install Python header files. The package providing these files varies per distribution. For example:

• Fedora 20 provides header files in the python-devel package.
• Ubuntu 14.04 provides header files in the python-dev package.

Get the source code and install dependencies:

$ git clone git://github.com/omaciel/robottelo.git
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

That's it! You can now go ahead and start testing The Foreman. However, there are a few other things you may wish to do before continuing:

1. You may want to install development tools (such as gcc) for your OS. If running Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux, execute yum groupinstall "Development Tools".
2. You may wish to install the optional dependencies listed in requirements-optional.txt. (Use pip, as shown above.) They are required for tasks like working with certificates, running tests with nose and checking code quality with pylint.

Before running any tests, you must create a configuration file. That done, all tests can be run using either unittest or nose. In short, you will execute the following commands:

$ cp robottelo.properties.sample robottelo.properties
$ vi robottelo.properties
$ python -m unittest discover -s tests -t .
$ nosetests -c robottelo.properties

The following sections provide a detailed discussion of the above steps.

To configure Robottelo, create a file named robottelo.properties. You can use the robottelo.properties.sample file as a starting point. Then, edit the configuration file so that at least the following attributes are set:

server.hostname=[FULLY QUALIFIED DOMAIN NAME]
server.ssh.key_private=[PATH TO YOUR SSH KEY]
server.ssh.username=root
project=foreman
locale=en_US
remote=0

[foreman]
admin.username=admin
admin.password=changeme

Note that you only need to configure the SSH key if you want to run CLI tests. There are other settings to configure what web browser to use for UI tests and even configuration to run the automation using SauceLabs. For more information about what web browsers you can use, check Selenium's WebDriver documentation.

To run all tests:

$ python -m unittest discover \
    --start-directory tests/ \
    --top-level-directory .

It is possible to run a specific subset of tests:

$ python -m unittest tests.robottelo.test_decorators
$ python -m unittest tests.robottelo.test_decorators.DataDecoratorTestCase
$ python -m unittest tests.robottelo.test_decorators.DataDecoratorTestCase.test_data_decorator_smoke

To get more verbose output, or run multiple tests:

$ python -m unittest discover -s tests/ -t . -v
$ python -m unittest \
    tests.robottelo.test_decorators \
    tests.robottelo.test_cli

To test The Foreman's API, CLI or UI, use the following commands respectively:

$ python -m unittest discover -s tests/foreman/api/
$ python -m unittest discover -s tests/foreman/cli/
$ python -m unittest discover -s tests/foreman/ui/

For more information about Python's unittest module, read the documentation.

You must have nose installed to execute the nosetests command.

To run all tests:

$ nosetests -c robottelo.properties

It is possible to run a specific subset of tests:

$ nosetests -c robottelo.properties tests.robottelo.test_decorators
$ nosetests -c robottelo.properties tests.robottelo.test_decorators:DataDecoratorTestCase
$ nosetests -c robottelo.properties tests.robottelo.test_decorators:DataDecoratorTestCase.test_data_decorator_smoke

To get more verbose output, or run multiple tests:

$ nosetests -c robottelo.properties -v
$ nosetests -c robottelo.properties \
    tests.robottelo.test_decorators \
    tests.robottelo.test_cli

To test The Foreman's API, CLI or UI, use the following commands respectively:

$ nosetests -c robottelo.properties tests.foreman.api
$ nosetests -c robottelo.properties tests.foreman.cli
$ nosetests -c robottelo.properties tests.foreman.ui

Many of the existing tests use the DDT module to allow for a more data-driven methodology and in order to run a specific test you need override the way nosetests discovers test names. For instance, if you wanted to run only the test_positive_create_1 data-driven tests for the foreman.cli.test_org module:

$ nosetests -c robottelo.properties -m test_positive_create_1 \
    tests.foreman.cli.test_org

If you are looking for information on a specific function, class or method, this part of the documentation is for you. The following is an overview of the topics covered by the API. For more granular information, follow one of the links.

Bugs are listed on GitHub. If you think you've found a new issue, please do one of the following:

• Open a new bug report on Github.
• Join the #robottelo IRC channel on Freenode (irc.freenode.net).

You can generate the documentation for Robottelo as follows, so long as you have Sphinx and make installed:

$ cd docs
$ make html

To check for code smells:

$ ./lint.py | less

The design and development for this software is led by Og Maciel.