Testing

Important

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Testing your Launchpad changes

The normal pattern for testing your changes is to run the tests you think will be affected locally, but fundamentally, we rely on post-merge testing by buildbot.

For instructions on running test suite locally, including selecting specific tests and layers, speeding up runs, and running browser tests headless, see Running tests.

Testing Launchpad translations

  • Rosetta admin user - translations-deity@example.com

  • Pagetest browser setup for Rosetta Administrators rosetta_admin_browser = setupRosettaExpertBrowser()

  • Pagetest browser setup for Ubuntu Translation Administrators ubuntu_admin_browser = setupDTCBrowser()

Performance and stress tests

Populate the DB

To add object into the database you can use:

& env LP_DBNAME="launchpad_dev" make iharness
from canonical.lp import initZopeless
zl = initZopeless()
#
# use the factory here
#
zl.commit()

Writing tests

For each part of an application there are 2 level of testing:

  • unit testing

    • comprehensive testing, including cornerstone cases

    • written in python files (try to avoid doctest)

  • smoke/functional/integration testing

    • testing normal use cases

    • written using doctest format

Model

  1. Unit testing

    • Files locate in lib/lp//scripts/tests

  2. Integration testing

    • Files locate in lib/lp//doc

View

  1. Unit/integration testing

    • Files locate in lib/lp//browser/tests

    • More details: ViewTests

  2. Smoke testing

    • Files locate in lib/lp//stories

    • More details: PageTests

JavaScript

  1. Unit testing

    More details: TestingJavaScript JavascriptUnitTesting

  2. XHR integration testing

    • Use sparingly.

    • We use YUI tests with a full appserver behind it.

    • See standard_yuixhr_test_template.js and standard_yuixhr_test_template.py in the root of the Launchpad tree.

Scripts

  • Files locate in lib/lp//scripts/tests

API

  • Files located in lib/lp//stories/webservices

  • More details: TestingWebServices