cicdRunning in CI CD Piepeline after You Have Written All the Tests

After you have finished writing all your tests, what all things to take care next?

These are general things to take care, nothing specific to Zerocode, but Zerocode makes your life very easy to achieve all these things.

Organization

  • Please check the organization of the tests.
    • Check you have organized the test cases by the API features?
    • Check you have organized the test cases by API methods?
    • Check the sub-organization by Positive or Negative flows
      • Sometimes they are called Happy and Sad flows
      • Sometimes they are called Sunny and Rainy cenarios
    • If they are Consumer or Boundary contract tests
      • Check you have organized them by the consumer names or boundary names.
      • Bring up a single Suite runner pointing to the root of the tests(JSON test files). See here how

Individual Test Classes

import org.jsmart.zerocode.core.domain.EnvProperty;
import org.jsmart.zerocode.core.domain.Scenario;
import org.jsmart.zerocode.core.domain.TargetEnv;
import org.jsmart.zerocode.core.runner.ZeroCodeUnitRunner;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
 
@EnvProperty("_${env}") //any meaningful string e.g. `env.name` or `envName` or `app.env` etc
@TargetEnv("hello_world_host.properties")
@RunWith(ZeroCodeUnitRunner.class)
public class EnvPropertyHelloWorldTest {
 
    @Test
    @Scenario("hello_world/hello_world_get.json")
    public void testRunAgainstConfigPropertySetViaJenkins() throws Exception {
        
    }
}
 
/**
 Set "env=ci" in Jenkins (or via .profile in a Unix machine, System/User properties in Windows)
 then the runner picks "hello_world_host_ci.properties" and runs.
 if -Denv=sit, then runner looks for and picks "hello_world_host_sit.properties" and runs.
 
If `env` not supplied, then defaults to "hello_world_host.properties" which by default mentioned mentioned via @TargetEnv
 
 -or-
 
 Configure the below `mvn goal` when you run via Jenkins goal in the specific environment e.g. -
 
 For CI :
 mvn clean install -Denv=ci
 
 For SIT:
 mvn clean install -Denv=sit
 
 and make sure:
 hello_world_host_ci.properties and hello_world_host_sit.properties etc are available in the resources folder or class path.
 */

Test Suite

  • Create a package of tests aka suite of tests
    • Sometime this may not need any additional work too
    • i.e. just identify the root of the tests for which you want to create a suite runner, that’s it.
  • Create a Suite runner or a Package runner.
    • It’s good to bring up a Package runner or Suite runner for all your tests or subset of your tests. See here how

e.g.

@TargetEnv("app_host.properties")       // <--- "app_host_sst.properties" if running against 'sst'
@TestPackageRoot("tests")               // <--- Root of the all tests folder in the test/resources
@EnvProperty("_${env}")                 // <--- mvn clean install -Denv=ci1 or -Denv=sst1
@RunWith(ZeroCodePackageRunner.class)
public class ContractTestSuite{
}

CI Build/Jenkins (POM)

  • Create a Jenkin Build Pipe line for your project.
    • This depends on how you have organized your tests
    • If you have multi-module maven project(POM or Gradle based), then you might need a pipe line
    • If you have only one maven module or only one type of suite or one regression pack, then you just need one Jenkin Job, not a Jenkins Pipe Line

In the Jenkins build goal, you need to configure which suite you want to run, e.g.

// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Via mvn command -
// $ mvn clean install -Denv=ci -Dtest=com.hsbc.regulatory.tests.ContractTestSuite
// $ mvn clean install -Denv=dit -Dtest=com.hsbc.regulatory.tests.ContractTestSuite
// $ mvn clean install -Denv=sst -Dtest=com.hsbc.regulatory.tests.ContractTestSuite
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 

or

  • Configure your sure fire plugin (if you using POM) like this
<plugin>
	<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
	<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
	<version>2.19.1</version>
	<configuration>
		<includes>
			<include>com.hsbc.regulatory.tests.ContractTestSuite.class</include>
		</includes>
	</configuration>
</plugin>

Then your Jenkins build goal will be as below(bit shorter than earlier).

// ------------------------------
// Via mvn command -
// $ mvn clean install -Denv=ci 
// $ mvn clean install -Denv=dit 
// $ mvn clean install -Denv=sst 
// ------------------------------

(Basically, it depends on the situation and varies from project to project how teh setup should be)

CI Build/Jenkins (Gradle)

  • Configure your Task fire(if you using Gradle) like this
task integrationTestsDev(type: Test) {
    delete 'target/'
    systemProperty 'env', 'dev'
    systemProperty 'zerocode.junit', 'gen-smart-charts-csv-reports'
    include 'com/mastercard/vm/tests/ContractTestSuite.class'
    testLogging {
        showStandardStreams = true
    }
}
 
task integrationTestsSst(type: Test) {
    delete 'target/'
    systemProperty 'env', 'sst'
    systemProperty 'zerocode.junit', 'gen-smart-charts-csv-reports'
    include 'com/mastercard/vm/tests/ContractTestSuite.class'
    testLogging {
        showStandardStreams = true
    }
}
 

Then your Jenkins goal would be

gradle clean build integrationTestsDev <---- For running against Dev pod

gradle clean build integrationTestsSst <---- For running against Sst pod

Running from IDE

@TargetEnv(“app_host.properties”) <--- Point this to any properties file to run the tests against that env

e.g.
app_host.properties  <-- against localhost/or dev or default type env.
app_host_ci.properties  <--- against ci
app_host_dit.properties <--- against dit
app_host_sit.properties <--- against sst