e2e

End-to-End Testing

This package contains the end-to-end tests for apptainer.

Contributing

For this example, we're going to use a topic of env or environment variable tests.

• Add your topic as a runtime-hook in suite.go.

// RunE2ETests by functionality
t.Run("BUILD", imgbuild.RunE2ETests)
t.Run("ACTIONS", actions.RunE2ETests)
t.Run("ENV", env.RunE2ETests)

• Create a directory for your topic.

mkdir -p e2e/env

• Create a source file to include your topic's tests.

touch e2e/env/env.go

• Optionally create a source file to include helpers for your topic's test.

touch e2e/env/env_utils.go

• Add a package declaration to your topic's test file that matches what you put in suite.go

package env

• Add a variable to store the testing settings in your topic's test file.

import (
        "github.com/kelseyhightower/envconfig"
)

type testingEnv struct {
	// base env for running tests
	CmdPath     string `split_words:"true"`
	TestDir     string `split_words:"true"`
	RunDisabled bool   `default:"false"`
}

var testenv testingEnv

• Add a entry-point to your topic's test file that matches what you put in suite.go

//RunE2ETests is the main func to trigger the test suite
func RunE2ETests(t *testing.T) {
	err := envconfig.Process("E2E", &testenv)
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatal(err.Error())
	}
}

• Create a test in your topic's test file as you normally would in go.

func TestEnv(t *Testing.T) {
	...
}

• Run your test from your entry-point function using a go sub-test.

//RunE2ETests is the main func to trigger the test suite
func RunE2ETests(t *testing.T) {
	err := envconfig.Process("E2E", &testenv)
        if err != nil {
        	t.Fatal(err.Error())
        }
        
	// Add tests
	t.Run("TestEnv", TestEnv)
}

• Example of what your topic's test file might look like:

package env 

import (
	"github.com/kelseyhightower/envconfig"
)

type testingEnv struct {
	// base env for running tests
	CmdPath     string `split_words:"true"`
	TestDir     string `split_words:"true"`
	RunDisabled bool   `default:"false"`
}

var testenv testingEnv

func TestEnv(t *testing.T) {
	...
}

//RunE2ETests is the main func to trigger the test suite
func RunE2ETests(t *testing.T) {
	err := envconfig.Process("E2E", &testenv)
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatal(err.Error())
	}

	t.Run("TestEnv", TestEnv)
}

Running

Test your topic using the e2e target in the Makefile. To avoid skipping these tests (default), make sure you set the environment variable APPTAINER_E2E to 1.

APPTAINER_E2E=1 make -C builddir e2e-test

• Verify that your test was run by modifying the Makefile to add a verbose flag (go test -v) and re-running the previous make step.