Integration tests with Docker

Running the integration tests spins up a tester container within which every test can specify its own GoShimmer network with Docker as schematically shown in the figure above.

Peers can communicate freely within their Docker network and this is exactly how the tests are run using the tester container. Test can be written in regular Go style while the framework provides convenience functions to create a new network, access a specific peer's web API or logs.

How to run

Prerequisites:

• Docker 17.12.0+
• Docker compose: file format 3.5

# Mac & Linux
./runTests.sh

The tests produce *.log files for every networks' peer in the logs folder after every run.

On GitHub logs of every peer are stored as artifacts and can be downloaded for closer inspection once the job finishes.

Creating tests

Tests can be written in regular Go style. Each tested component should reside in its own test file in tester/tests. main_test with its TestMain function is executed before any test in the package and initializes the integration test framework.

Each test has to specify its network where the tests are run. This can be done via the framework at the beginning of a test.

// create a network with name 'testnetwork' with 6 peers and wait until every peer has at least 3 neighbors
n := f.CreateNetwork("testnetwork", 6, 3)
// must be called to create log files and properly clean up
defer n.Shutdown() 

Other tips

Useful for development is to only execute the test you're currently building. For that matter, simply modify the docker-compose.yml file as follows:

entrypoint: go test ./tests -run <YOUR_TEST_NAME> -v -mod=readonly