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Assisted Installer Testing

The assisted-installer tests are divided into 3 categories:

  • Unit tests - Focused on a module/function level while other modules are mocked. Unit tests are located in the package, where the code they are testing resides, using the pattern <module_name>_test.go. Unit tests needs a postgresql db container. The image for db container quay.io/centos7/postgresql-12-centos7:latest is built from https://github.com/sclorg/postgresql-container

  • Subsystem tests - Focused on the component while mocking other component. For example, assisted-service subsystem tests mock the agent responses.

  • System tests (a.k.a e2e) - Running full flows with all components. The e2e tests are divided into u/s (upstream) basic workflows on assisted-test-infra and d/s (downstream) extended regression tests maintained by both DEV and QE teams on kni-assisted-installer-auto.

Repository CI

Our CI jobs are currently managed and ran by two CI tools - a Jenkins hosted on http://assisted-jenkins.usersys.redhat.com and a Prow hosts on https://prow.ci.openshift.org.

Jenkins Prow
Local for Assisted ecosystem Company-wide
Checks comments for JIRA Runs e2e
Manages images in quay.io/edge-infrastructure Runs all testing checks (lint, unit, etc)

Assisted-service CI jobs are defined under openshift/release repository on openshift-assisted-service-master.yaml. Read more about OpenShift CI infrastructure on OpenShift CI Docs.

All the currently available jobs for the openshift/assisted-service repository can be viewed on Openshift CI Step Registry.

Adding a new CI job

When adding a new job the following rules of thumbs should be taken into account:

  • Test logic needs to be maintained in the repository under test and not under openshift/release. It would allow easier integration with other tools, less dependency of the CI infrastructure, and most importantly the availability to run it locally.

  • When introducing a new job it should be both a presubmit job and a periodic job. A presubmit job needs to be available so contributors would be able to run it on their PRs before merging.

    The presubmit job needs to be configured as always_run: false and optional: true (not blocking a merge) until proving stability. New OCP releases might break one of Assisted workflows since Assisted isn't part of OCP.

    The periodic job needs to run on a frequent basis (e.g. daily) and have a reporter_config configured, in order to be notified on Slack whenever there's a breakage.

  • In case the new job affects multiple repositories - every repository should have the same presubmit job, so it could be tested for every component change. For example, you can see that the e2e-metal-assisted-olm job is defined on several different repositories in this link.

An example of a PR adding a new job

FAQ

How can I debug CI failures?

A CI job can be debugged only in runtime. Once a job terminates it can no longer be debugged because the cluster / machines used to run the job get torn down at the end of it.

However, each job produces artifacts such as (logs, SOS reports, must-gather logs) which can be used to try to analyze what went wrong in retrospect. Those artifacts can be accessed by going to the job artifacts.

You can follow the OpenShift CI doc "Interact With Running Jobs" guide or try to run the experimental Debug Prow Jobs live gist in order to connect to the OCP cluster running your prow tests. Contributions are welcome. :)

If a CI job fails, where should I look for assisted-related failures?

When a PR job fails there's a "details" button next to the GitHub context. It will show the Spyglass view. In there, you should look if there are other builds that failed recently for the same job using the "Job History" button.

When is it ok to retest?

Whenever there's a failure - first, you should look for its root cause before hitting the "/retest" command. It should only be used when there's a known flaky issue. Using the retest feature for no reason just wastes the project CI resources and money.

How does the retest bot works?

When a PR is ready to be merged (approved and not held) all the jobs will be retested for every new master that's being updated. In case any of the job fails - the openshift-bot will try to retest it automatically. The retest job is defined under infra-periodics.yaml

Where do these jobs run?

Depends on the job.

  • Single-stage tests (e.g. lint, unit tests) run inside a scheduled container. Read more
  • Jobs that require a cluster (e.g. subsystem) run on a claimed OCP cluster from an hibernated pool of clusters. Read more
  • Baremetal jobs (i.e. e2e) run on a provisioned baremetal machine by Equnix.

How to run Assisted-service subsystem tests

More information is available here: Assisted Installer Testing.