samba-mirror/ctdb/tests

Introduction
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The run_tests script can be run as follows:

  scripts/run_tests simple/*.sh

It can also be run from other places (e.g. the top level ctdb source
directory), as it works out where the tree is.

The pseudo-test simple/00_ctdb_init.sh causes ctdb to be (re)started
on all nodes to attempt to force the cluster into a healthy state.  By
default (i.e. if CTDB_TEST_REAL_CLUSTER is unset - see below) this
causes some local daemons to be started on the local machine.  Tests
can also be run against a real or virtual cluster.  All tests
communicate with cluster nodes using onnode - when using local daemons
this is accomplished via some test hooks in onnode and the ctdb
client.

Command-line options
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The most useful option is "-s", which causes a summary of test results
to be printed at the end of testing.

Environment variables
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run_tests supports several environment variables, mostly implemented
in scripts/ctdb_test_env.  These are:

* CTDB_TEST_REAL_CLUSTER

  If set, testing will occur on a real or virtual cluster.

  Assumptions:

  - The ctdb client command can be found via $PATH on the nodes.

  - Password-less ssh access to the cluster nodes is permitted from
    the test host.

  - $CTDB_NODES_FILE is set to the location of a file similar to
    /etc/ctdb/nodes.  The file can be obtained by scping it from one
    of the cluster nodes.

  - See CTDB_TEST_REMOTE_DIR.

  If not set, testing will proceed against local daemons.

* CTDB_TEST_REMOTE_DIR

  This may be required when running against a real or virtual cluster
  (as opposed to local daemons).

  If set, this points to a directory containing the contents of the
  tests/scripts/ directory, as well as all of the test binaries.  This
  can be accomplished in a couple of ways:

  * By copying the relevant scripts/binaries to some directory.

  * Building an RPM containing all of the test code that is required
    on the cluster nodes and installing it on each node.  Hopefully
    this will be supported in a future version of the CTDB packaging
    process.

  If not set, the test system assumes that the CTDB tree is available
  in the same location on the cluster nodes as on the test host.  This
  could be accomplished by copying or by sharing with NFS (or
  similar).

* VALGRIND

  This can be used to cause all invocations of the ctdb client (and,
  with local daemons, the ctdbd daemons themselves) to occur under
  valgrind.

  The easiest way of doing this is something like:

    VALGRIND="valgrind -q" scripts/run_tests ...

  NOTE: Some libc calls seem to do weird things and perhaps cause
  spurious output from ctdbd at start time.  Please read valgrind
  output carefully before reporting bugs.  :-)

* CTDB

  How to invoke the ctdb client.  If not already set and if $VALGRIND
  is set, this is set to "$VALGRIND ctdb".  If this is not already set
  but $VALGRIND is not set, this is simply set to "ctdb"

Look, no run_test!
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If you want to integrate individual tests into some other test
environment you can use scripts/ctdb_test_env to wrap individual
tests.  They will return 0 on success, non-zero otherwise, and will
print the output omitting the test header/footer that surrounds test
output when tests are run using run_tests.  So, you can do something
like:

  for i in simple/*.sh ; do
      my_test_framework_wrapper scripts/ctdb_test_env $i
  done

to have your own framework process the test results and output.