Test suite for MagicMirror²

[roramirez]

Thanks @qistoph

I know your help will to be great.

I recently a create a simple Trello board https://trello.com/b/RMlo1mDy/test-suite-magicmirror. Three state: Todo - Doing - Done

Todo: Ideas and planning of tests.
Doing: Task self asignated or requested one by someone. This state if someone is working in this task.
Done: Pushed in Pull Request or commited.

Every interested in help this area, feel free send me by IM or private message of your Trello account.

[morozgrafix]

Great idea to setup test suite. Thanks for getting it started @roramirez. I’ve made some minor cleanup changes on top of your initial work, PR is sitting on GitHub. I will try to contribute to tests as much as I can.

[roramirez]

@morozgrafix Thanks!, Is already merged :)

[roramirez]

Update and news:

Thanks to @qistoph we have 2 improvement

• Now every commit introduced previous is checked by tests suite in Travis.
• Added a new test case https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/pull/648/files

Also, @qistoph and I suggest have two side for test.

• The backend application and node_helpers
• The frontend application running in electron, running client side javascript.

For this last is possible use Spectron … but… is needed will set nodeIntegration to true. One idea is check a enviroment variable and if present set this variable to true.

For other way, work with serveronly and get test from client side from there.

If some have comments and ideas from this is welcome.

PS: I have a sample of use spectron https://github.com/roramirez/MagicMirror/commit/c99581c15b4cb008b2800f40ecbaf9c9862c7ceb

[qistoph]

Okay, just another brainfart.

For the tests to run consistently and in such a way that we can test whatever is needed, we’re probably going to need a separate configuration file, maybe even a couple. If I’ve read the code correctly, we could set nodeIntegration in this config, without touching the code in MM to check for environment settings…

This would be cleaner imho

[roramirez]

@qistoph Sound good and I like it. Now we can set by electronOptions in configuration file, same logic as you say.

The point to resolved is how can tell to MagicMirror read a specific file of configuration. Now is set in hardcoded. With than can be create multiples instances of configuration files into tests suite (tests directory) and run test to these. Added this task in Trello.

[roramirez]

Hi,

Today I’ve working a problem of issue with Electron and other things, all details here
https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues/577

After testing in two enviroment different for Lite and with Pixel on Raspbian, the process is long because you need the create SD and follow the instruction and check what could be the problem.

I think this can be automatic and running on a hosted system or my own machine. Someone know howto use a arm image for RaspberryPi and run like a Docker’s container? for run a test of enviroments. I think can be a help to include in the Test Suite.

[morozgrafix]

@roramirez I haven’t played with Docker in a while and never tried raspbian on a docker container. Quickly glanced at DockerHub and it seems that people are able to do that. https://hub.docker.com/search/?isAutomated=1&isOfficial=0&page=1&pullCount=0&q=raspbian&starCount=0
I may take a look into it, but it all depends on my availability.

[roramirez]

Hi, I recently pushed a Pull Request with two e2e testing.
https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/pull/669

These use their own configurations like @qistoph mention and after added the MM_CONFIG_FILE variable for MagicMirror.

It’s really easy create new test for check a different part of MagicMirror and their modules.

[strawberry 3.141]

@roramirez what is the reason for a 10 sec timeout in each test? If there are a many tests this will sum up