+1 Yes we could expose more API methods in Mock IaaS to make those
configurable dynamically.

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Reka Thirunavukkarasu <r...@wso2.com>
wrote:

> Hi Isuru,
>
> It will be good initiative for adding more samples. Can we keep the
> mock-iaas.xml and deploy or undeploy or scaleup or scaledown timeout
> configurable per sample wise? So that we can assert based on the timeout
> for deploy or undeploy or scaleup or scaledown scenarios where we can
> calculate the timeout based on the parameters given in the mock-iaas.xml.
> WDYT?
>
> However I'm not sure how feasible is to test the scaleup and scaledown.
> This is just my thought.
>
> Thanks,
> Reka
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Isuru Haththotuwa <isu...@apache.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Devs,
>>
>> Did the initial changes and tested locally. This provides the ability to
>> easily write tests for scenarios which are hard to cover by unit tests, due
>> to distributed nature, etc. The initial abstracted API is shown below,
>> which is overriden for artifact specific implementation.
>>
>> However, I would not commit this now to master since the community is
>> preparing for 4.1.0 release. Will try to merge and push after 4.1.0 is done.
>>
>>     /**
>>      * Deploy the artifact in the file ${definitionFileName}.json by
>> calling the deploy.sh script
>>      * under samples/xxx/scripts/.
>>      * The file name excluding .json part is passed to the script to
>> locate the relevant artifact definition.
>>      *
>>      * @param iaas IaaS type
>>      * @param definitionFileName  definition file name, excluding .json
>> suffix
>>      * @return output from the bash command execution
>>      */
>>   *  public String deploy (String iaas, String definitionFileName)*
>>
>>     /**
>>      * Assert if an artifact is deployed with the given id
>>      *
>>      * @param artifactId artifact id to check
>>      */
>>     *public void assertDeployed (String artifactId)*
>>
>>     /**
>>      * Undeploys the artifact with id 'artifactId', by calling the
>> undeploy.sh script under samples/xxx/scripts.
>>      * The iaas and artifact id is passed as a parameter to the script.
>>      *
>>      * @param artifactId  id of the artifact to undeploy
>>      * @return output from the bash command execution
>>      */
>>     *public String undeploy (String artifactId)*
>>
>>     /**
>>      * Executes the script get.sh under samples/xxxx/scripts and returns
>> the command output
>>      *
>>      * @param artifactId id of artifact to GET
>>      * @return output of the command execution
>>      */
>> *    public String get (String artifactId)*
>>
>>     /**
>>      * Assert if no artifact is deployed with the id 'artifactId'
>>      *
>>      * @param artifactId  id of the artifact to check
>>      */
>>   *  public void assertNotDeployed (String artifactId)*
>>
>>     /**
>>      * Get the relevant artifact directory
>>      *
>>      * @return path to the artifact directory
>>      */
>>  *   protected String getArtifactLocation ()*
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Udara Liyanage <ud...@wso2.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> +1 for generic approach so we can automate any sample without much
>>> change.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Isuru Haththotuwa <isu...@apache.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Imesh,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the feedback.
>>>>
>>>> What I tried out is similar to what is there currently; I added a
>>>> script for each operation and have it parameterized to call the relevant
>>>> file.
>>>>
>>>> For an example, in the samples/cartridges-groups directory, there will
>>>> be scripts for common operations; deploy, undeploy, etc. The scripts are
>>>> parameterized to take an input specifying which group to deploy/undeploy,
>>>> etc. These scripts will be called from the group related test utility
>>>> methods. Following this approach, we can call any operation on any of the
>>>> cartridges, groups and policies.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 12:39 AM, Imesh Gunaratne <im...@apache.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Isuru,
>>>>>
>>>>> +1 for improving the Integration Test Framework with utility methods.
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently we directly invoke the deploy.sh script and it internally
>>>>> deploy cartridges, cartridge groups, policies, etc. How are we planning to
>>>>> do this with the new approach? It would be better if you could send the
>>>>> refactored code.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 12:12 AM, Isuru Haththotuwa <isu...@apache.org
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Devs,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I had a look to see how we can improve the code coverage with unit
>>>>>> testing. There are a few challenges for this in Stratos:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    1. Operations are not local to a single component - One component
>>>>>>    calls other to do verifications, etc. Example: deploying a service 
>>>>>> group;
>>>>>>    Autoscaler will call CC to verify the cartridge details
>>>>>>    2. Services are not simple, hard to mock - Since the exposed
>>>>>>    axis2 services are complex, its hard to mock them using available 
>>>>>> tools. We
>>>>>>    can still do this bit will involve some re-factoring to the code.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As a potential solution to improve the tests, I tried to use the
>>>>>> integration test mechanism and adapt it to test simple flows as well;
>>>>>> deploying and validating various aspects of Service Groups (dependencies,
>>>>>> startup orders, etc.), different kinds of policies used in Stratos, etc.
>>>>>> Using the integration test mechanism solves the problem of operations not
>>>>>> being local and difficulty to mock them; the Stratos server and MB can be
>>>>>> used to execute any flow and test it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What I propose is to add a layer on top of the currently integration
>>>>>> tests framework to expose a set of utility methods to deploy cartridges,
>>>>>> groups, policies, etc. to help developers to write tests using those
>>>>>> easily. All the tests will be executed against a single Stratos Server
>>>>>> without starting a separate server each time. Did some refactoring 
>>>>>> locally
>>>>>> to suit this purpose and wrote several simple tests as well, which seem 
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> work well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please share your thoughts.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Thanks and Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Isuru H.
>>>>>> +94 716 358 048* <http://wso2.com/>*
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Imesh Gunaratne
>>>>>
>>>>> Senior Technical Lead, WSO2
>>>>> Committer & PMC Member, Apache Stratos
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Thanks and Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Isuru H.
>>>>> +94 716 358 048* <http://wso2.com/>*
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> * <http://wso2.com/>*
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>
>
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>


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