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docs/wiki/Testing

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2016-03-06 Paul Boddie Adjusted the __nonzero__ and __len__ methods of the database collection. freebusy-collections
     1 = Testing =     2      3 Before attempting to integrate imip-agent with other system components,     4 it can be useful to check whether the different programs function as     5 expected by themselves. Should errors or faults occur, these would need     6 to be remedied first before attempting to get the software working with     7 the [[../MailIntegration|mail]] and [[../WebServerIntegration|Web]]     8 system components.     9     10 <<TableOfContents(2,2)>>    11     12 == How the Software Works ==    13     14 To see how the software operates, you can run one of the agent programs    15 provided in the distribution. For example:    16     17 {{{    18 ./imip_resource.py -S xxx/store -P xxx/static -p xxx/prefs -d \    19   < tests/templates/event-request.txt    20 }}}    21     22 This uses one of the test files, sending it to the agent program for    23 resource entities, producing output resembling the following:    24     25 {{{    26 Outgoing parts for paul.boddie@example.com...    27 From nobody Wed Oct 28 00:24:41 2015    28 MIME-Version: 1.0    29 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64    30 Content-Type: text/calendar; charset="utf-8"; method="REPLY"    31 From: calendar@example.com    32 To: paul.boddie@example.com    33 Subject: Calendar system message    34     35 QkVHSU46VkNBTEVOREFSDQpNRVRIT0Q6UkVQTFkNClZFUlNJT046Mi4wDQpCRUdJTjpWRlJFRUJV    36 U1kNCk9SR0FOSVpFUjptYWlsdG86cGF1bC5ib2RkaWVAZXhhbXBsZS5jb20NCkFUVEVOREVFO1NF    37 TlQtQlk9Im1haWx0bzpjYWxlbmRhckBleGFtcGxlLmNvbSI6bWFpbHRvOnJlc291cmNlLXJvb20t    38 Y29uZnJvb20NCiBAZXhhbXBsZS5jb20NClVJRDpmYjFAZXhhbXBsZS5jb20NCkVORDpWRlJFRUJV    39 U1kNCkVORDpWQ0FMRU5EQVINCg==    40 }}}    41     42 The rather opaque encoding can be inspected using the `tools/showmail.py`    43 program, and thus the result of the script can be seen by piping the output    44 through that program as follows:    45     46 {{{    47 ./imip_resource.py -S xxx/store/ -P xxx/static/ -p xxx/prefs/ -d \    48   < tests/templates/event-request.txt \    49   | tools/showmail.py    50 }}}    51     52 The result should resemble the following:    53     54 {{{    55 Outgoing parts for paul.boddie@example.com...    56 MIME-Version: 1.0    57 Content-Type: text/calendar; charset="utf-8"; method="REPLY"    58 From: calendar@example.com    59 To: paul.boddie@example.com    60 Subject: Calendar system message    61     62 BEGIN:VCALENDAR    63 METHOD:REPLY    64 VERSION:2.0    65 BEGIN:VEVENT    66 DTSTAMP:20151027T232738Z    67 UID:event1@example.com    68 ATTENDEE;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;SENT-BY="mailto:calendar@example.com":mailto:reso    69  urce-room-confroom@example.com    70 SUMMARY:Meeting at 4pm    71 ORGANIZER:mailto:paul.boddie@example.com    72 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20141126T160000    73 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20141126T170000    74 END:VEVENT    75 END:VCALENDAR    76 }}}    77     78 What has happened here is the presentation of a request to the resource    79 program in the form of an e-mail message containing an iCalendar event    80 employing a scheduling method. The program interprets the request,    81 consults its own records, makes a decision about scheduling the event,    82 and indicates the kind of response it would like to send back to the    83 requester.    84     85 == The Test Suite ==    86     87 A script called `test_all.sh` is provided that runs a test suite (found    88 in the `tests` directory within the source code distribution), initialising    89 new and separate data store instances for each test, running programs that    90 are presented with message content, and testing for the desired effects of    91 running those programs with such content.    92     93 Individual tests may also be run directly from the topmost level of the    94 source code distribution. For example:    95     96 {{{    97 tests/test_resource_invitation.sh    98 }}}    99    100 Should everything be functioning correctly, `Success` should be reported   101 repeatedly as opposed to `Failed`. If the latter occurs, the output of the   102 tests should be inspected: a number of files whose names end with `.tmp`   103 will have been saved in the current directory, and these will contain the   104 output from various commands from the last test script invocation; the   105 `err.tmp` will contain tracebacks indicating serious error conditions,   106 should any have occurred.