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The Importance of Testing
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Reliability is a critical success factor for any Version Control System.
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Reliability is a critical success factor for any version control system.
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We want Bazaar to be highly reliable across multiple platforms while
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evolving over time to meet the needs of its community.
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.. _testrepository: https://launchpad.net/testrepository
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Babune continuous integration
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We have a Hudson continuous-integration system that automatically runs
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tests across various platforms. In the future we plan to add more
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combinations including testing plugins. See
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<http://babune.ladeuil.net:24842/>. (Babune = Bazaar Buildbot Network.)
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Running tests in parallel
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Bazaar can use subunit to spawn multiple test processes. There is
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slightly more chance you will hit ordering or timing-dependent bugs but
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$ ./bzr selftest --parallel=fork
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Note that you will need the Subunit library
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<https://launchpad.net/subunit/> to use this, which is in
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``python-subunit`` on Ubuntu.
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Running tests from a ramdisk
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The tests create and delete a lot of temporary files. In some cases you
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can make the test suite run much faster by running it on a ramdisk. For
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$ sudo mount -t tmpfs none /ram
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$ TMPDIR=/ram ./bzr selftest ...
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You could also change ``/tmp`` in ``/etc/fstab`` to have type ``tmpfs``,
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if you don't mind possibly losing other files in there when the machine
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restarts. Add this line (if there is none for ``/tmp`` already)::
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With a 6-core machine and ``--parallel=fork`` using a tmpfs doubles the
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test execution speed.
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The actual use of ScriptRunner within a TestCase looks something like
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def test_unshelve_keep(self):
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Import tariff tests
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dependencies and only needed for particular cases. If they're loaded in
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other cases then bzr may break for people who don't have those modules.
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`test_import_tarrif` allows us to check that removal of imports doesn't
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`test_import_tariff` allows us to check that removal of imports doesn't
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This is done by running the command in a subprocess with
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A base TestCase that extends the Python standard library's
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TestCase in several ways. It adds more assertion methods (e.g.
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``assertContainsRe``), ``addCleanup``, and other features (see its API
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docs for details). It also has a ``setUp`` that makes sure that
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global state like registered hooks and loggers won't interfere with
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your test. All tests should use this base class (whether directly or
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TestCase in several ways. TestCase is build on
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``testtools.TestCase``, which gives it support for more assertion
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methods (e.g. ``assertContainsRe``), ``addCleanup``, and other
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features (see its API docs for details). It also has a ``setUp`` that
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makes sure that global state like registered hooks and loggers won't
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interfere with your test. All tests should use this base class
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(whether directly or via a subclass). Note that we are trying not to
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Temporarily changing state
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If your test needs to temporarily mutate some global state, and you need
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it restored at the end, you can say for example::
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should be used instead of ``tearDown``. All the cleanups are run when the
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test finishes, regardless of whether it passes or fails. If one cleanup
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fails, later cleanups are still run.
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(The same facility is available outside of tests through
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Generally we prefer automated testing but sometimes a manual test is the
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right thing, especially for performance tests that want to measure elapsed
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Simulating slow networks
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performance, we can simulate 500ms latency (thus 1000ms round trips)::
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tc qdisc add dev lo parent 30:1 handle 40: prio
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tc filter add dev lo protocol ip parent 1:0 prio 3 u32 match ip dport 4155 0xffff flowid 1:3 handle 800::800
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tc filter add dev lo protocol ip parent 1:0 prio 3 u32 match ip sport 4155 0xffff flowid 1:3 handle 800::801
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