Run MicroOVN tests

MicroOVN has two types of tests, linter checks and functional tests and this page will show how to run them.

Linter checks

Linting is currently applied only to the tests themselves, not the main codebase. The prerequisites for running linter are:

  • make

  • shellcheck

You can install them with:

sudo apt install make shellcheck

To perform linting, go into the repository’s root directory and run:

make check-lint

Functional tests

These tests build the MicroOVN snap and use it to deploy the OVN cluster in LXD containers. This cluster is then used for running functional test suites.

Satisfy the test requirements

There is no need to run tests in dedicated VMs or in isolated environments as all functional tests run inside containers and no changes are made to the host running them.

MicroOVN needs to be built prior to running the functional tests. See the Build MicroOVN page.

Secondly, ensure that you have installed Bash Automated Testing System (BATS), a software dependency. Due to the reliance on its latest features, MicroOVN uses BATS directly from its source. If you cloned the MicroOVN repository with submodules (using --recurse-submodules flag), you are all set and you will have the following non-empty directories:

  • .bats/bats-assert/

  • .bats/bats-core/

  • .bats/bats-support/

If they are empty, you can fetch the submodules with:

git submodule update --init --recursive

Run functional tests

Once you have your environment set up, running tests is just a matter of invoking the appropriate make target. To run all available test suites, use the check-system make target:

make check-system

To run individual test suites you can execute:

make tests/<name_of_the_test_suite>.bats

Tip

If your hardware can handle it, you can run test suites in parallel by supplying make with -j argument (e.g. make check-system -j4). To avoid interleaving output from these parallel test suites, you can specify the -O argument as well.

Clean up

Functional test suites will attempt to clean up their containers. However, if a test crashes, or if it’s forcefully killed, you may need to do some manual cleanup.

If you suspect that tests did not clean up properly, you can list all containers with:

lxc list

Any leftover containers will be named according to: microovn-<test_suite_name>-<number>. You can remove them with:

lxc delete --force <container_name>