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Windmill for JS Integration Tests
For integration testing that covers JS workflows, our tool of choice is Windmill.
Setting up Windmill
Windmill is included in the Launchpad source tree.
Running the Launchpad Windmill test suite
There is a script called lp-windmill.py in the top-level directory. This is a wrapper around the windmill main script which starts a Launchpad server on port 8085 locally with a fresh database (including all of the standard tests sample data).
The windmill process is then fired off with the command line argument.
So if you want to run all the tests you'd typically use:
$ ./lp-windmill.py -t lib/canonical/launchpad/windmill/tests firefox http://launchpad.dev:8085
Note that it is not currently possible to run all the tests like that because of a bug/limitation in Windmill. You need to run each tests starting at the correct vhost. So for bugs tests, you'd use:
$ ./lp-windmill.py -t lib/canonical/launchpad/windmill/tests/test_bugs firefox http://bugs.launchpad.dev:8085
and for registry, you'd use:$ ./lp-windmill.py -t lib/canonical/launchpad/windmill/tests/test_registry firefox http://launchpad.dev:8085
For interactive test running and development, it's usually more convenient to run the Launchpad server separately:
$ ./lp-windmill.py --server-only
The Windmill driver script, windmill.py, is located under the utilities/ directory. Using it, you can start an interactive shell to run tests without setting up and tearing down Launchpad repeatedly:
$ ./utilities/windmill.py shell firefox http://launchpad.dev:8085
See the help page on the shell environment.
How are the tests organized
Tests written in python are rooted at lib/canonical/launchpad/windmill/tests.
Tests are divided by applications and then subdivided by workflows.
Tests using the JS API are in lib/canonical/launchpad/windmill/jstests.
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