Gavin, Congratulations on your momentous decision. And it is an important one.
You may want to go to www.amazon.com and pick up How Google Tests Software by Whittaker, Arbon, and Carollo. It is also a serious effort. Stuart Afternoon all > > I've read a fair few blogs, slideshares and other sources recently around > Module testing in Puppet, and it has spurned me on to start writing a test > framework around our internal modules... Yes, we aren't currently testing > our internal modules... Yes, we *should *be, and yes, I could give you a > list of excuses why we aren't, but the long and short is we (I) want to > start to :) > > Anyhow, I've been playing with puppetlabs_spec_helper, puppet-lint, > hiera-puppet-helper, librarian-puppet and Jenkins over the past couple of > days, and have got a working test framework finally... After lots of to-ing > and fro-ing with Hiera helpers, Rspec helpers, etc... > > So I've currently got Jenkins running parser tests, lint tests, and am > guna start running spec tests shortly, of which I currently have the grand > sum of 1 (yes, one). > However one thing I'm struggling to find is how to generate Puppet test > code coverage stats... > > So Puppetlabs_spec_helper includes *'rake* *coverage*', with a > description of: > "rake coverage # Generate code coverage information". > > However this doesn't appear to currently do anything useful :( > > $ ruby -S rcov -Ispec:lib --exclude spec >> ./spec/classes/server/linux_spec.rb >> -bash-4.1$ >> > > I found a snippet on the Puppetlabs blog [1] which says: > > 'coverage' runs rcov on your spec tests; it is only useful if your module >> includes Ruby extensions to Puppet. >> > > So my reading of that is that rcov doesn't check Puppet manifest coverage, > only Ruby extensions? > If that's the case, is there any alternative that *will *generate Puppet > manifest code coverage? > > Or am I completely barking up the wrong tree??? > > As always, thanks in advance for any responses/comments/etc... > > Cheers > Gavin > > [1] > http://puppetlabs.com/blog/the-next-generation-of-puppet-module-testing > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/82001dbc-cb72-455e-bda7-7dc193f10167%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
