ansible-collection-hetzner-hcloud/tests/integration

Integration tests

This document provides information to work with the integration tests.

Guidelines

A set of guidelines to follow when writing integrations tests.

Prepare and cleanup

The integration tests use a small testing framework that helps to set up and teardown any resources needed or generated by the tests. This small testing framework is located in the tests/integration/common directory. The files within the common directory are then duplicated and kept in sync in all the integration tests targets (tests/integration/targets/hcloud_*).

• Use a tasks/prepare.yml file to set up resources needed during the tests.
• Use a tasks/cleanup.yml file to teardown resources from the tasts/prepare.yml tasks and the resources generated by the tests.
• Use a tasks/test.yml file to defines your tests.
• You may explode the tests into multiple tasks/test-*.yml files and import them in the tasks/test.yml file.
• The tasks/cleanup.yml file cannot use variables present in the tasks/prepare.yml file because cleanup should also run before the prepare tasks.

Naming convention

The integration tests handle a lot of different variables, names, identifier. To reduce this complexity, make sure to use the following naming conventions:

• Any test resources MUST be registered using the test_<resource> variable name (e.g. test_server or test_floating_ip) and MUST be created and cleaned in the tasks/prepare.yml and tasks/cleanup.yml. The scope of this variable is the entire target.
• In tasks/prepare.yml, tasks names MUST start with: Create test_<resource> (e.g. Create test_server or Create test_floating_ip)
• In tasks/cleanup.yml, tasks names MUST start with: Cleanup test_<resource> (e.g. Cleanup test_server or Cleanup test_floating_ip)
• Any fact starting with _ is scoped to the current file and MUST NOT be used outside of it.
• Any test result MUST be registered using the result variable name unless it is required in a future test, in that case it MUST use the <resource> variable name as prefix.