Before proceeding with the unit tests, first complete the setup instructions in the Getting Started Tutorial. This guide covers essential setup information required to run the integration tests.
Ubuntu Pro Client uses behave for its integration testing.
The integration test definitions are stored in the features/
directory and
consist of two parts:
.feature
files that define the tests we want to run, and.py
files that implement the underlying logic for those tests.
By default, integration tests do the following on a given cloud platform:
- Launch an instance running latest daily image of the target Ubuntu release
- Add the Ubuntu Pro client daily build PPA: ppa:ua-client/daily
- Install the appropriate
ubuntu-advantage-tools
andubuntu-advantage-pro
debs - Run the integration tests on that instance
The testing can be overridden to install ubuntu-advantage-tools
from other
sources instead of the daily PPA by providing UACLIENT_BEHAVE_INSTALL_FROM
to
the behave test runner. The default is UACLIENT_BEHAVE_INSTALL_FROM=daily
and the other available options are:
staging
: install from the staging PPA.stable
: install from the stable PPA.archive
: install the latest version available in the archive, not adding any PPA.proposed
: install the package from the-proposed
pocket -- this is especially useful for SRU testing (see the release guide).custom
: install from a custom-provided PPA. If set, then two other variables also need to be set:UACLIENT_BEHAVE_CUSTOM_PPA=<PPA URL>
andUACLIENT_BEHAVE_CUSTOM_PPA_KEYID=<signing key for the PPA>
.local
: install from a local copy of theubuntu-pro-client
source code.local
is particularly useful, as it runs the suite against the local code, thus including and validating the latest changes made. It is advised to run any related integration tests against local code changes before pushing them to be reviewed.
Note We cache the source when running with
UACLIENT_BEHAVE_INSTALL_FROM=local
based on a hash, calculated from the repository state. If you change the Python code locally and run the behave tests against your new version, there will be new debs in the cache source with the new repo state hash.
To run the integration tests, use the tox
command as shown below. Note that,
as shown here without arguments, this command would run all the integration
tests sequentially and would take an inordinate amount of time to complete.
Always pass arguments to this command to specify a subset of tests to run, like
this:
tox -e behave
or, if you just want to run a specific file, or a test within a file:
tox -e behave -- features/unattached_commands.feature
tox -e behave -- features/unattached_commands.feature:28
or, if you want to run a specific file for a specific release and machine type, or a specific test:
tox -e behave -- features/config.feature -D releases=jammy -D machine_types=lxd-container
tox -e behave -- features/config.feature:132 -D releases=jammy -D machine_types=lxd-vm
This will run behave tests for only the release 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). Similarly, the behave tests can be run for all supported releases, including LTS releases under ESM, and the development release at some point in the development cycle. Note that the specific release versions may change over time, so we recommend referring to the documentation for the latest information.
Furthermore, when developing/debugging a new scenario:
-
Add a
@wip
tag decorator on the scenario -
To only run
@wip
scenarios run:tox -e behave -- -w
-
If you want to use a debugger:
- Add
ipdb
tointegration-requirements.txt
- Add
ipdb.set_trace()
in the code block you wish to debug
- Add
If you're getting started with behave, we recommend at least reading through the behave tutorial to get an idea of how it works, and how tests are written.
The following tox
environments allow for testing focal on EC2:
# To test ubuntu-pro-images
tox -e behave -- -D release=focal -D machine_types=aws.pro
# To test Canonical cloud images (non-ubuntu-pro)
tox -e behave -- -D release=focal -D machine_types=aws.generic
To run the test for a different release, update the release version string. For example, to run AWS Pro Xenial tests, you can run:
tox -e behave -- -D release=xenial -D machine_types=aws.pro
To run EC2 tests, first set up the pycloudlib toml file with the required EC2 credentials.
To specifically run non-Ubuntu Pro tests using Canonical cloud-images an additional token obtained from the Ubuntu Pro web page needs to be set:
UACLIENT_BEHAVE_CONTRACT_TOKEN=<your_token>
To manually run EC2 integration tests with a specific AMI ID provide the
following environment variable to launch your specific AMI instead of building
a daily ubuntu-advantage-tools
image.
UACLIENT_BEHAVE_REUSE_IMAGE=your-custom-ami tox -e behave -- -D release=focal -D machine_types=aws.pro
The following tox
environments allow for testing focal on Azure:
# To test ubuntu-pro-images
tox -e behave -- -D release=focal -D machine_types=aws.pro
# To test Canonical cloud images (non-ubuntu-pro)
tox -e behave -- -D release=focal -D machine_types=aws.generic
To run the test for a different release, update the release version string. For example, to run Azure Pro Xenial tests, you can run:
tox -e behave -- -D machine_types=azure.pro
In order to run Azure tests, first set up the pycloudlib toml file with the required Azure credentials.
To specifically run non-Ubuntu Pro tests using Canonical cloud-images an additional token obtained from the Ubuntu Pro web page needs to be set:
UACLIENT_BEHAVE_CONTRACT_TOKEN=<your_token>
To manually run Azure integration tests with a specific Image ID provide the following environment variable to launch your specific Image ID instead of building a daily ubuntu-advantage-tools image.
UACLIENT_BEHAVE_REUSE_IMAGE=your-custom-image-id tox -e behave -- -D release=focal -D machine_types=azure.pro
The following tox
environments allow for testing focal on GCP:
# To test ubuntu-pro-images
tox -e behave -- -D release=focal -D machine_types=gcp.pro
# To test Canonical cloud images (non-ubuntu-pro)
tox -e behave -- -D release=focal -D machine_types=gcp.generic
To run the test for a different release, update the release version string. For example, to run GCP Pro Xenial tests, you can run:
tox -e behave -- -D release=xenial machine_types=gcp.pro
In order to run GCP tests, first set up the pycloudlib toml file with the required GCP credentials.
To specifically run non-Ubuntu Pro tests using Canonical cloud-images an additional token obtained from the Ubuntu Pro web page needs to be set:
UACLIENT_BEHAVE_CONTRACT_TOKEN=<your_token>
To manually run GCP integration tests with a specific Image ID provide the
following environment variable to launch your specific Image ID instead of
building a daily ubuntu-advantage-tools
image.
UACLIENT_BEHAVE_REUSE_IMAGE=your-custom-image-id tox -e behave -- -D release=focal -D machine_types=gcp.pro