Testing Networking-odl + neutron¶
Overview¶
The unit tests (networking_odl/tests/unit/) are meant to cover as much code as possible and should be executed without the service running. They are designed to test the various pieces of the neutron tree to make sure any new changes don’t break existing functionality.
# TODO (Manjeet): Update functional testing doc.
Development process¶
It is expected that any new changes that are proposed for merge come with tests for that feature or code area. Ideally any bugs fixes that are submitted also have tests to prove that they stay fixed! In addition, before proposing for merge, all of the current tests should be passing.
Virtual environments¶
Testing OpenStack projects, including Neutron, is made easier with DevStack.
Create a machine (such as a VM or Vagrant box) running a distribution supported by DevStack and install DevStack there. For example, there is a Vagrant script for DevStack at https://github.com/bcwaldon/vagrant_devstack.
Note
If you prefer not to use DevStack, you can still check out source code on your local machine and develop from there.
Running unit tests¶
There are two mechanisms for running tests: tox, and nose. Before submitting a patch for review you should always ensure all test pass; a tox run is triggered by the jenkins gate executed on gerrit for each patch pushed for review.
With these mechanisms you can either run the tests in the standard environment or create a virtual environment to run them in.
By default after running all of the tests, any pep8 errors found in the tree will be reported.
With nose¶
You can use nose to run individual tests, as well as use for debugging portions of your code:
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install nose
nosetests
There are disadvantages to running Nose - the tests are run sequentially, so race condition bugs will not be triggered, and the full test suite will take significantly longer than tox & testr. The upside is that testr has some rough edges when it comes to diagnosing errors and failures, and there is no easy way to set a breakpoint in the Neutron code, and enter an interactive debugging session while using testr.
With tox¶
Networking-odl, like other OpenStack projects, uses tox for managing the virtual environments for running test cases. It uses Testr for managing the running of the test cases.
Tox handles the creation of a series of virtualenvs that target specific versions of Python (2.6, 2.7, 3.3, etc).
Testr handles the parallel execution of series of test cases as well as the tracking of long-running tests and other things.
Running unit tests is as easy as executing this in the root directory of the Neutron source code:
tox
Running tests for syntax and style check for written code:
tox -e pep8
For more information on the standard Tox-based test infrastructure used by OpenStack and how to do some common test/debugging procedures with Testr, see this wiki page:
Tests written can also be debugged by adding pdb break points. Normally if you add a break point and just run the tests with normal flags they will end up in failing. There is debug flag you can use to run after adding pdb break points in the tests.
Set break points in your test code and run:
tox -e debug networking_odl.tests.unit.db.test_db.DbTestCase.test_validate_updates_same_object_uuid
The package oslotest was used to enable debugging in the tests. For more information see the link:
Running individual tests¶
For running individual test modules or cases, you just need to pass the dot-separated path to the module you want as an argument to it.
For executing a specific test case, specify the name of the test case class separating it from the module path with a colon.
For example, the following would run only the Testodll3 tests from networking_odl/tests/unit/l3/test_odl_l3.py
$ tox -e py27 networking_odl.tests.unit.l3.test_l3_odl.Testodll3
Adding more tests¶
There might not be full coverage yet. New patches for adding tests which are not there are always welcome.
To get a grasp of the areas where tests are needed, you can check current coverage by running:
$ tox -e cover
Debugging¶
It’s possible to debug tests in a tox environment:
$ tox -e venv -- python -m testtools.run [test module path]
Tox-created virtual environments (venv’s) can also be activated after a tox run and reused for debugging:
$ tox -e venv
$ . .tox/venv/bin/activate
$ python -m testtools.run [test module path]
Tox packages and installs the neutron source tree in a given venv on every invocation, but if modifications need to be made between invocation (e.g. adding more pdb statements), it is recommended that the source tree be installed in the venv in editable mode:
# run this only after activating the venv
$ pip install --editable .
Editable mode ensures that changes made to the source tree are automatically reflected in the venv, and that such changes are not overwritten during the next tox run.
Running functional tests¶
Neutron defines different classes of test cases. One of them is functional test. It requires pre-configured environment. But it’s lighter than running devstack or openstack deployment. For definitions of functional tests, please refer to:
The script is provided to setup the environment. At first make sure the latest version of pip command:
# ensure you have the latest version of pip command
# for example on ubuntu
$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
$ sudo pip --upgrade pip
And then run functional test as follows:
# assuming devstack is setup with networking-odl
$ cd networking-odl
$ ./tools/configure_for_func_testing.sh /path/to/devstack
$ tox -e dsvm-functional
For setting up devstack, please refer to neutron documentation:
References¶
| [1] | PUDB debugger: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pudb |