make a blog post explaining how to run the unittests

[stdweird]

Placeholder for all stuff to put in the blog

[stdweird]

convenience methods. set according to the environment if PERL5LIB cannot be set in bashrc

export QUATTOR_PERL5LIB=/usr/lib/perl:/home/stdweird/perl5/lib/perl5/

and use

function mvn_run {
    local unsetfn quatenv
    quatenv="PERL5LIB=${QUATTOR_PERL5LIB:-$PERL5LIB} QUATTOR_TEST_LOG_CMD_MISSING=1 QUATTOR_TEST_LOG_CMD=1 QUATTOR_TEST_LOG_DEBUGLEVEL=3"
    # make a subshell with all bashfunctions removed. maven can have issues with then via exporting with env.BASH_FUNC
    unsetfn=""
    for fn in `env |grep BASH_FUNC_ | grep -v grep | sed "s/(.*//; s/BASH_FUNC_//" |tr "\n" ' '`; do
        unsetfn="unset -f $fn; $unsetfn"
    done
    bash -c "$unsetfn $quatenv mvn $1"
}

function mvn_test {
    local extra
    if [ ! -z "$1" ]; then
       extra="-Dunittest=$1.t"
    fi
     mvn_run "clean test -Dprove.args=-v $extra"
}

function mvn_pack {
    mvn_run "clean package -Dprove.args=-v"
}

export -f mvn_run
export -f mvn_test
export -f mvn_pack

[piojo-zz]

There is already documentation here . Feel free to update it.

[stdweird]

gather debug logs

yum install -y perl-App-cpanminus.noarch  perl-devel gcc perl-Test-Simple
cpanm install Devel::Trace
perl -t -d:Trace `which ncm-ncd` --co fstab >& fstab_output

if no perl-App-cpanminus, do a yum install -y perl-CPAN, and install the module by

• start cpan
• type install Devel::Trace

[piojo-zz]

Devel::Trace is available on Fedora, isn't it in EL6 or EL7?

[stdweird]

to get value based regexptest for TT, pipe output of verbose mvn_test through

perl -e 'while (<>) { s/^# //; s/([(){}|[\]+\^\*\$\?#])/\\\1/g; s/^/^/; s/$/\$/; s/ {16}/\\s{16}/;s/ {12}/\\s{12}/; s/ {8}/\\s{8}/; s/ {4}/\\s{4}/; print; }'

[stdweird]

if your, ~/.proverc contains --state=new,save, it will always run all tests

[jouvin]

For the record, there is a page about unit test in the old wiki that I updated regularly: https://trac.lal.in2p3.fr/Quattor/wiki/Development/Code/TestingComponents. It may be good to start from it and when moved to quattor.org, remove it from the old wiki.

[jouvin]

An issue I faced recently is the fact that set_file_contents doesn't make the file visible to get_file without using it with a CAF;;FileWriter. This is pretty unusual (in my case it was because the action done between set_file_content and get_file was silently failing) but this is confusing to see get_file failing... This needs to be documented.

[stdweird]

If rpm packaging fails for no obvious reason (but has Unable to copy files for packaging:), run it with

PERL5LIB=/usr/lib/perl/ mvn package -e -X -Dprove.args=-v  

Then check the output for the created mappings: eg.g

[DEBUG]   (f) mappings = [["/usr/lib/perl/Test" {} from [{"/home/stdweird/.git/quattor/maven-tools/package-build-scripts/target/lib/perl/Test" failIfLocationNotExists:true filter: false}]], ["/usr/share/man" {% 
doc %attr(644,root,root)} from [{"/home/stdweird/.git/quattor/maven-tools/package-build-scripts/target/doc/man" failIfLocationNotExists:true incl:[ChangeLog] filter: false}]]]    

In this example the pom.xml had 2 mappings, and was based on the build-profile, and it seemed to overlay the mappings of te build-profile on the one in use. The ChangeLog include was thus added, and stuff failed.

The components have stuff like <mappings combine.children="append"> when adding new mappings.
Default is merge, you can also specifiy 'overrride' (but it seems it has no impact the way build-profile is made (it's nested, and then this looses all meaning)

[jouvin]

I have the feeling that this issue has been fixed by @stdweird pages on Quattor development... Am I wrong? If yes, please consider adding/updating a documentation page rather than a blog post... See #212.