VictoriaMetrics/apptest/README.md
Artem Fetishev 7c60d82215
tests: integration tests for vmsingle (#7434)
### Describe Your Changes

This PR continues the implementation of integration tests (#7199). It
adds the support for vm-single:

-    A vmsingle app wrapper has been added
- Sample vmsingle tests that test the VM documentation related to
querying data (#7435)
- The tests use the go-cmp/{cmp,/cmpopts} packages, therefore they have
been added to ./vendor
-    Minor refactoring: data objects have been moved to model.go

Advice on porting things to cluster branch:

- The build rule must include tests that start with TestVmsingle
(similarly to how TestCluster tests are skipped in master branch)
- The build rule must depend on `vmstorage vminsert vmselect` instead of
`victoria-metrics`
- The query_test.go can actually be implemented for cluster as well. To
do this the tests need to be renamed to start with TestCluster and the
tests must instantiace vm{storage,insert,select} instead of vmsingle.

### Checklist

The following checks are **mandatory**:

- [x] My change adheres [VictoriaMetrics contributing
guidelines](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/contributing/).

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Signed-off-by: Artem Fetishev <rtm@victoriametrics.com>
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Co-authored-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
2024-11-07 12:58:37 +01:00

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# App Integration Tests
The `apptest` package contains the integration tests for the VictoriaMetrics
applications (such as vmstorage, vminsert, and vmselect).
An integration test aims at verifying the behavior of an application as a whole,
as apposed to a unit test that verifies the behavior of a building block of an
application.
To achieve that an integration test starts an application in a separate process
and then issues HTTP requets to it and verifies the responses, examines the
metrics the app exposes and/or files it creates, etc.
Note that an object of testing may be not just a single app, but several apps
working together. A good example is VictoriaMetrics cluster. An integration test
may reproduce an arbitrary cluster configuration and verify how the components
work together as a system.
The package provides a collection of helpers to start applications and make
queries to them:
- `app.go` - contains the generic code for staring an application and should
not be used by integration tests directly.
- `{vmstorage,vminsert,etc}.go` - build on top of `app.go` and provide the
code for staring a specific application.
- `client.go` - provides helper functions for sending HTTP requests to
applications.
The integration tests themselves reside in `tests/*_test.go` files. Apart from having
the `_test` suffix, there are no strict rules of how to name a file, but the
name should reflect the prevailing purpose of the tests located in that file.
For example, `sharding_test.go` aims at testing data sharding.
Since integration tests start applications in a separate process, they require
the application binary files to be built and put into the `bin` directory. The
build rule used for running integration tests, `make integration-test`,
accounts for that, it builds all application binaries before running the tests.
But if you want to run the tests without `make`, i.e. by executing
`go test ./app/apptest`, you will need to build the binaries first (for example,
by executing `make all`).
Not all binaries can be built from `master` branch, cluster binaries can be built
only from `cluster` branch. Hence, not all test cases suitable to run in both branches:
- If test is using binaries from `cluster` branch, then test name should be prefixed
with `TestCluster` word
- If test is using binaries from `master` branch, then test name should be prefixed
with `TestVmsingle` word.