README.md

osbuild-composer testing information

With the exception of unit tests, all the osbuild-composer tests are shipped in a dedicated RPM: osbulid-composer-tests, and they are meant to be installed onto a pristine system and executed from there, rather than executed from a git checkout.

Test cases are found in test/cases. They are intended to be independent of each other and they are installed into /usr/libexec/tests/osbuild-composer/, with any supporting test-data in /usr/share/tests/osbuild-composer/, and helper binaries in /usr/libexec/osbuild-composer-test/.

Provisioning and orchestration of test-systems, as well as configuring what distros, versions and architectures to test against is out of scope of the tests themselves. For osbuild-composer CI, schutzbot is used, which can be found in the directory by the same name.

Golang tests

Test binaries, regardless of their scope/type (e.g. unit, API, integration) that are written in Golang must follow the syntax of the Go testing package, that is implement only TestXxx functions with their setup/teardown when necessary in a yyy_test.go file.

Test scenario discovery, execution and reporting will be handled by go test.

Some test files will be executed directly by go test during rpm build time and/or in CI. These are usually unit tests. Scenarios which require more complex setup, e.g. a running osbuild-composer are not intented to be executed directly by go test at build time. Instead they are intended to be executed as stand-alone test binaries on a clean system which has been configured in advance (because this is easier/more feasible). These stand-alone test binaries are also compiled via go test -c -o during rpm build or via make build. See Integration testing for more information.

When comparing for expected values in test functions you should use the testify/assert or testify/require packages. Both of them provide an impressive array of assertions with the possibility to use formatted strings as error messages. For example:

assert.Nilf(t, err, "Failed to set up temporary repository: %v", err)

If you want to fail immediately, not doing any more of the asserts use the require package instead of the assert package, otherwise you'll end up with panics and nil pointer memory problems.

Stand-alone test binaries also have the -test.failfast option.

Code coverage is recorded in codecov.io. This information comes only from unit tests and for the time being we're not concerned with collecting coverage information from integration tests, see .github/workflows/tests.yml.

Image tests

In the test/data/manifests directory, sample image builds and their tests are collected for the various distros, architectures, configuration we support.

Each test case describes how the image is built, the expected osbuild manifest used internally, the expected image-info output and how to boot-test the image.

To (re)generate these test cases use the tool tools/test-case-generators/generate-test-cases. Note that the generate-test-cases tool must be run on a host with the same architecture, as the one intended for the generated test cases. In other words, you need to generate e.g test cases for aarch64 images on an aarch64 host.

Alternatively to (re)generate test cases for all architectures, or just the ones different from your host's architecture, you can use the tool tools/test-case-generators/generate-all-test-cases. It creates an ephemeral virtual machine for each necessary architecture using the qemu-system-<arch> command and generates test cases using the generate-test-cases tool inside the virtual machine. It is important to note that test case generation in virtual machines may take several hours. The generate-all-test-cases currently does not work with RHEL images because of missing "9p" filesystem support.

Setting up Azure upload tests

By default, the vhd images are run locally using qemu. However, when the right set of environment flags is passed to the osbuild-image-tests, it uploads the image to Azure, boots it and tries to ssh into it.

Required flags

  • AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT
  • AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY
  • AZURE_CONTAINER_NAME
  • AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID
  • AZURE_CLIENT_ID
  • AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET
  • AZURE_TENANT_ID
  • AZURE_LOCATION
  • AZURE_RESOURCE_GROUP

Setting up all the required resources

1) Firstly, go to Subscriptions in the left-side menu. Here you can find the AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID.

2) Now, you need to create a new resource group. In the left-side menu, select Resource groups. Click on Add above the resource group list. The name you choose is your AZURE_RESOURCE_GROUP. The region you choose is your AZURE_LOCATION. However, it must be in the "machine-readable form". You can list all the locations with their machine-readable names using Azure CLI: az account list-locations -o table. E.g. the machine-readable name of US East location is eastus.

Note that terms location and region are synonyms in Azure's context.

3) Storage time! Go to Storage accounts in the left-side menu. Click on Add above the list. Use the resource group you created in the previous step. Also, the region should be the same. The name you choose is your AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT.

After the storage account is created, open it. Select Settings > Access keys. Choose one of the keys, this is your AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY. Select Blob service > Containers and create a new one. Its name is your AZURE_CONTAINER_NAME.

4) Now it’s time to create an application. This is needed because Azure uses OAuth to do authorization. In the left-side menu, choose Azure Active Directory. Go to Manage > App registrations and register a new application.

When it’s created, open it. In the overview, you can see the Application (client) ID and the Directory (tenant) ID. These are your AZURE_CLIENT_ID and AZURE_TENANT_ID.

Now, go to Manage > Certificates & Secrets under your new application and create a new client secret. The is your AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET.

5) The last step is to give the new application access to the resource group. This step must be done by Azure administrator (@larskarlitski): Go to the Access control (IAM) section under the newly created resource group. Here, add the new application with the Developer role.

Setting up OpenStack upload tests

The following environment variables are required

  • OS_AUTH_URL
  • OS_USERNAME
  • OS_PASSWORD
  • OS_PROJECT_ID
  • OS_DOMAIN_NAME

Setting up VMware vCenter upload tests

The following environment variables are required

  • GOVMOMI_URL - vCenter hostname
  • GOVMOMI_USERNAME
  • GOVMOMI_PASSWORD
  • GOVMOMI_DATACENTER
  • GOVMOMI_CLUSTER
  • GOVMOMI_NETWORK
  • GOVMOMI_DATASTORE
  • GOVMOMI_FOLDER
  • GOVMOMI_INSECURE - value of 1 will skip checking SSL certificates

WARNING: when configuring the credentials for Schutzbot we've experienced an issue where the first line in the credentials file gets lost resulting in incomplete credentials. The work-around is to define a dummy ENV variable on the first line!

Integration testing

This will consume the osbuild-composer API surface via the composer-cli command line interface. Implementation is under cmd/osbuild-composer-cli-tests/.

The easiest way to get started with integration testing from a git checkout is:

  • dnf -y install rpm-build
  • dnf -y builddep osbuild-composer.spec
  • make rpm to build the software under test
  • dnf install rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/osbuild-composer-*.rpm - this will install both osbuild-composer, its -debuginfo, -debugsource and -tests packages
  • systemctl start osbuild-composer
  • /usr/libexec/tests/osbuild-composer/osbuild-composer-cli-tests to execute the test suite.

It is best that you use a fresh system for installing and running the tests!

NOTE:

The easiest way to start osbuild-composer is via systemd because it takes care of setting up the UNIX socket for the API server.

If you are working on a pull request that adds more integration tests (without modifying osbuild-composer itself) then you can execute the test suite from the local directory without installing it:

  • make build - will build everything under cmd/
  • ./osbuild-composer-cli-tests - will execute the freshly built integration test suite

Downstream testing notes

To make it easier for us to test & verify downstream builds we are going to move most of the work upstream and apply the following rules:

  1. Preferably the 1st commit of any PR will contain a bug reproducer. First push a draft PR only containing that commit which will cause CI to FAIL.
  2. QE will review and approve the reproducer (can happen in parallel with next item)
  3. Subsequent commits provide bug fixes without modifying the reproducer and CI reports PASS. Push these on top of the approved reproducer.
  4. QE has done final review and approved the PR; RHBZ status is set to MODIFIED + Verified=Tested
  5. Devel has done final review and approved the PR

NOTES for devel:

Pull requests related to new functionality may add their automated tests together or after commit(s) adding said functionality!

All PRs containing commits referencing rhbz# number and/or all PRs against a dedicated rhel- branch should follow the above rules!

NOTE for QE:

CI results are also reported against each commit and these can be used to review the test automation state during a PR lifecycle.

qa_ack+ on RHBZ will be granted after a reproducer has been identified and with the mutual understanding that PRs related to that RHBZ must include an automated test reproducer.

Cron jobs for internal builds testing

The Schutzbot Pipeline contains conditional sections that facilitate test execution against internal builds. This is achieved by running different preparation steps while the testing stage remains the same. The main difference is that SUT is not compiled locally but installed directly from OS repositories!

By default we test against latest nightly builds. If you wish to test against other flavors (e.g. rel-eng) specify the COMPOSE_URL environment variable to point to the respective URL (stopping before the /compose/ path). See the image below or schutzbot/prepare-rhel-internal.sh for more details.

'Define COMPOSE_URL'

Replay internal Pipeline manually

If you wish to execute the internal Pipeline by hand, often to verify changes made to it then do the following:

  1. Wait for schutzbot-psi/pr-head to report any status on the pull request. This means a regular Pipeline has been started with changes coming from your PR; or
  2. In Jenkins Blue Ocean UI locate the latest Pipeline execution triggered by timer
  3. In Jenkins Blue Ocean UI, top-right corner, click Go to classic button:

'Go to classic button'

  1. In Jenkins Classic UI, left-hand sidebar click Replay button. This will allow you to replay a Pipeline with a modified syntax
  2. Locate the detect_build_cause() function near the bottom and modify it so that it will return "cron". This is required because when Pipelines are restarted manually their build cause is Replayed #xy. See the images for reference:

'Modify build cause'

'Modify build cause'

  1. Click the Run button - the newly started Pipeline will be forced to take the internal branches instead of the regular ones