[book - #1251780] add a section to explain how to write tests to test which actions are visible
.. -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
Tests
=====
Unit tests
----------
The *CubicWeb* framework provides the `CubicWebTC` test base class in
the module `cubicweb.devtools.testlib`.
Tests shall be put into the mycube/test directory. Additional test
data shall go into mycube/test/data.
It is much advised to write tests concerning entities methods, hooks
and operations, security. The CubicWebTC base class has convenience
methods to help test all of this.
.. note::
In the realm of views, there is not much to do but check that the
views are valid XHTML. See :ref:`automatic_views_tests` for
details. Integration of CubicWeb tests with UI testing tools such as
`selenium`_ are currently under invesitgation.
.. _selenium: http://seleniumhq.org/projects/ide/
Most unit tests need a live database to work against. This is achieved
by CubicWeb using automatically sqlite (bundled with Python, see
http://docs.python.org/library/sqlite3.html) as a backend.
The database is stored in the mycube/test/tmpdb,
mycube/test/tmpdb-template files. If it does not (yet) exists, it will
be built automatically when the test suit starts.
.. warning::
Whenever the schema changes (new entities, attributes, relations)
one must delete these two files. Changes concerned only with entity
or relation type properties (constraints, cardinalities,
permissions) and generally dealt with using the
`sync_schema_props_perms()` fonction of the migration environment
need not a database regeneration step.
Unit test by example
````````````````````
We start with an example extracted from the keyword cube (available
from http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-keyword).
.. sourcecode:: python
from cubicweb.devtools.testlib import CubicWebTC
from cubicweb import ValidationError
class ClassificationHooksTC(CubicWebTC):
def setup_database(self):
req = self.request()
group_etype = req.execute('Any X WHERE X name "CWGroup"').get_entity(0,0)
c1 = req.create_entity('Classification', name=u'classif1',
classifies=group_etype)
user_etype = req.execute('Any X WHERE X name "CWUser"').get_entity(0,0)
c2 = req.create_entity('Classification', name=u'classif2',
classifies=user_etype)
self.kw1 = req.create_entity('Keyword', name=u'kwgroup', included_in=c1)
self.kw2 = req.create_entity('Keyword', name=u'kwuser', included_in=c2)
def test_cannot_create_cycles(self):
# direct obvious cycle
self.assertRaises(ValidationError, self.kw1.set_relations,
subkeyword_of=self.kw1)
# testing indirect cycles
kw3 = self.execute('INSERT Keyword SK: SK name "kwgroup2", SK included_in C, '
'SK subkeyword_of K WHERE C name "classif1", K eid %s'
% self.kw1.eid).get_entity(0,0)
self.kw1.set_relations(subkeyword_of=kw3)
self.assertRaises(ValidationError, self.commit)
The test class defines a `setup_database` method which populates the
database with initial data. Each test of the class runs with this
pre-populated database.
The test case itself checks that an Operation does it job of
preventing cycles amongst Keyword entities.
You can see an example of security tests in the
:ref:`adv_tuto_security`.
It is possible to have these tests run continuously using `apycot`_.
.. _apycot: http://www.logilab.org/project/apycot
Managing connections or users
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Since unit tests are done with the SQLITE backend and this does not
support multiple connections at a time, you must be careful when
simulating security, changing users.
By default, tests run with a user with admin privileges. This
user/connection must never be closed.
Before a self.login, one has to release the connection pool in use
with a self.commit, self.rollback or self.close.
The `login` method returns a connection object that can be used as a
context manager:
.. sourcecode:: python
with self.login('user1') as user:
req = user.req
req.execute(...)
On exit of the context manager, either a commit or rollback is issued,
which releases the connection.
When one is logged in as a normal user and wants to switch back to the
admin user without committing, one has to use
self.restore_connection().
Usage with restore_connection:
.. sourcecode:: python
# execute using default admin connection
self.execute(...)
# I want to login with another user, ensure to free admin connection pool
# (could have used rollback but not close here
# we should never close defaut admin connection)
self.commit()
cnx = self.login('user')
# execute using user connection
self.execute(...)
# I want to login with another user or with admin user
self.commit(); cnx.close()
# restore admin connection, never use cnx = self.login('admin'), it will return
# the default admin connection and one may be tempted to close it
self.restore_connection()
.. warning::
Do not use the references kept to the entities created with a
connection from another !
Email notifications tests
`````````````````````````
When running tests potentially generated e-mails are not really sent
but is found in the list `MAILBOX` of module
`cubicweb.devtools.testlib`.
You can test your notifications by analyzing the contents of this list, which
contains objects with two attributes:
* `recipients`, the list of recipients
* `msg`, object email.Message
Let us look at simple example from the ``blog`` cube.
.. sourcecode:: python
from cubicweb.devtools.testlib import CubicWebTC, MAILBOX
class BlogTestsCubicWebTC(CubicWebTC):
"""test blog specific behaviours"""
def test_notifications(self):
req = self.request()
cubicweb_blog = req.create_entity('Blog', title=u'cubicweb',
description=u'cubicweb is beautiful')
blog_entry_1 = req.create_entity('BlogEntry', title=u'hop',
content=u'cubicweb hop')
blog_entry_1.set_relations(entry_of=cubicweb_blog)
blog_entry_2 = req.create_entity('BlogEntry', title=u'yes',
content=u'cubicweb yes')
blog_entry_2.set_relations(entry_of=cubicweb_blog)
self.assertEquals(len(MAILBOX), 0)
self.commit()
self.assertEquals(len(MAILBOX), 2)
mail = MAILBOX[0]
self.assertEquals(mail.subject, '[data] hop')
mail = MAILBOX[1]
self.assertEquals(mail.subject, '[data] yes')
Visible actions tests
`````````````````````
It is easy to write unit tests to test actions which are visible to
user or to a category of users. Let's take an example in the
`conference cube`_.
.. _`conference cube`: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-conference
.. sourcecode:: python
class ConferenceActionsTC(CubicWebTC):
def setup_database(self):
self.conf = self.create_entity('Conference',
title=u'my conf',
url_id=u'conf',
start_on=date(2010, 1, 27),
end_on = date(2010, 1, 29),
call_open=True,
reverse_is_chair_at=chair,
reverse_is_reviewer_at=reviewer)
def test_admin(self):
req = self.request()
rset = req.execute('Any C WHERE C is Conference')
self.assertListEquals(self.pactions(req, rset),
[('workflow', workflow.WorkflowActions),
('edit', confactions.ModifyAction),
('managepermission', actions.ManagePermissionsAction),
('addrelated', actions.AddRelatedActions),
('delete', actions.DeleteAction),
('generate_badge_action', badges.GenerateBadgeAction),
('addtalkinconf', confactions.AddTalkInConferenceAction)
])
self.assertListEquals(self.action_submenu(req, rset, 'addrelated'),
[(u'add Track in_conf Conference object',
u'http://testing.fr/cubicweb/add/Track'
u'?__linkto=in_conf%%3A%(conf)s%%3Asubject&'
u'__redirectpath=conference%%2Fconf&'
u'__redirectvid=' % {'conf': self.conf.eid}),
])
You just have to execute a rql query corresponding to the view you want to test,
and to compare the result of
:meth:`~cubicweb.devtools.testlib.CubicWebTC.pactions` with the list of actions
that must be visible in the interface. This is a list of tuples. The first
element is the action's `__regid__`, the second the action's class.
To test actions in submenu, you just have to test the result of
:meth:`~cubicweb.devtools.testlib.CubicWebTC.action_submenu` method. The last
parameter of the method is the action's category. The result is a list of
tuples. The first element is the action's title, and the second element the
action's url.
.. _automatic_views_tests:
Automatic views testing
-----------------------
This is done automatically with the :class:`cubicweb.devtools.testlib.AutomaticWebTest`
class. At cube creation time, the mycube/test/test_mycube.py file
contains such a test. The code here has to be uncommented to be
usable, without further modification.
The ``auto_populate`` method uses a smart algorithm to create
pseudo-random data in the database, thus enabling the views to be
invoked and tested.
Depending on the schema, hooks and operations constraints, it is not
always possible for the automatic auto_populate to proceed.
It is possible of course to completely redefine auto_populate. A
lighter solution is to give hints (fill some class attributes) about
what entities and relations have to be skipped by the auto_populate
mechanism. These are:
* `no_auto_populate`, may contain a list of entity types to skip
* `ignored_relations`, may contain a list of relation types to skip
* `application_rql`, may contain a list of rql expressions that
auto_populate cannot guess by itself; these must yield resultsets
against which views may be selected.
.. warning::
Take care to not let the imported `AutomaticWebTest` in your test module
namespace, else both your subclass *and* this parent class will be run.
Testing on a real-life database
-------------------------------
The ``CubicWebTC`` class uses the `cubicweb.devtools.ApptestConfiguration`
configuration class to setup its testing environment (database driver,
user password, application home, and so on). The `cubicweb.devtools`
module also provides a `RealDatabaseConfiguration`
class that will read a regular cubicweb sources file to fetch all
this information but will also prevent the database to be initalized
and reset between tests.
For a test class to use a specific configuration, you have to set
the `_config` class attribute on the class as in:
.. sourcecode:: python
from cubicweb.devtools import RealDatabaseConfiguration
from cubicweb.devtools.testlib import CubicWebTC
class BlogRealDatabaseTC(CubicWebTC):
_config = RealDatabaseConfiguration('blog',
sourcefile='/path/to/realdb_sources')
def test_blog_rss(self):
req = self.request()
rset = req.execute('Any B ORDERBY D DESC WHERE B is BlogEntry, '
'B created_by U, U login "logilab", B creation_date D')
self.view('rss', rset)
Testing with other cubes
------------------------
Sometimes a small component cannot be tested all by itself, so one
needs to specify other cubes to be used as part of the the unit test
suite. This is handled by the ``bootstrap_cubes`` file located under
``mycube\test\data``. One example from the `preview` cube::
card, file, preview
The format is:
* possibly several empy lines or lines starting with ``#`` (comment lines)
* one line containing a coma separated list of cube names.
Test APIS
---------
Using Pytest
````````````
The `pytest` utility (shipping with `logilab-common`_, which is a
mandatory dependency of CubicWeb) extends the Python unittest
functionality and is the preferred way to run the CubicWeb test
suites. Bare unittests also work the usual way.
.. _logilab-common: http://www.logilab.org/project/logilab-common
To use it, you may:
* just launch `pytest` in your cube to execute all tests (it will
discover them automatically)
* launch `pytest unittest_foo.py` to execute one test file
* launch `pytest unittest_foo.py bar` to execute all test methods and
all test cases whose name contain `bar`
Additionally, the `-x` option tells pytest to exit at the first error
or failure. The `-i` option tells pytest to drop into pdb whenever an
exception occurs in a test.
When the `-x` option has been used and the run stopped on a test, it
is possible, after having fixed the test, to relaunch pytest with the
`-R` option to tell it to start testing again from where it previously
failed.
Using the `TestCase` base class
```````````````````````````````
The base class of CubicWebTC is logilab.common.testlib.TestCase, which
provides a lot of convenient assertion methods.
.. autoclass:: logilab.common.testlib.TestCase
:members:
CubicWebTC API
``````````````
.. autoclass:: cubicweb.devtools.testlib.CubicWebTC
:members: