Integration Testing¶

Overview¶

Integration tests are written using pytest and are located at tests/integration_tests. General design principles laid out in Testing should be followed for integration tests.

Setup is accomplished via a set of fixtures located in tests/integration_tests/conftest.py.

Image Setup¶

Image setup occurs once when a test session begins and is implemented via fixture. Image setup roughly follows these steps:

Launch an instance on the specified test platform
Install the version of cloud-init under test
Run cloud-init clean on the instance so subsequent boots resemble out of the box behavior
Take a snapshot of the instance to be used as a new image from which new instances can be launched

Test Setup¶

Test setup occurs between image setup and test execution. Test setup is implemented via one of the client fixtures. When a client fixture is used, a test instance from which to run tests is launched prior to test execution and torn down after.

Test Definition¶

Tests are defined like any other pytest test. The user_data mark can be used to supply the cloud-config user data. Platform specific marks can be used to limit tests to particular platforms. The client fixture can be used to interact with the launched test instance.

A basic example:

USER_DATA = """#cloud-config
bootcmd:
- echo 'hello config!' > /tmp/user_data.txt"""


class TestSimple:
    @pytest.mark.user_data(USER_DATA)
    @pytest.mark.ec2
    def test_simple(self, client):
        print(client.exec('cloud-init -v'))

Test Execution¶

Test execution happens via pytest. To run all integration tests, you would run:

pytest tests/integration_tests/

Configuration¶

All possible configuration values are defined in tests/integration_tests/integration_settings.py. Defaults can be overridden by supplying values in tests/integration_tests/user_settings.py or by providing an environment variable of the same name prepended with CLOUD_INIT_. For example, to set the PLATFORM setting:

CLOUD_INIT_PLATFORM='ec2' pytest tests/integration_tests/