Now that we have shaved the yak of generate-puppetfile, it’s time to move my rspec tests to the top of the controlrepo, as discussed on Thursday. To do so, we need to move not just the spec tests, but also the files Rakefile, .rspec, .rubocop.yml, and create a facsimile metadata.json, and of course, generate a […]
I was having a problem yesterday with a specific rspec test that was failing for my puppet tool generate-puppetfile, and I couldn’t understand why. I was expecting an exitcode of 0 but was receiving 1, so obviously I had an issue, but I couldn’t see the accompanying error message. When I attempted to run the […]
Yesterday was our 14th anniversary, so I didn’t have time to write a blog post, but I did look into a tech debt issue: rspec tests. In addition to adding rspec-puppet-facts, I found a program called onceover that offers two concepts I want to look into. First, there is a rake task to generate fixtures. […]
Sometimes, when you are writing an rspec-puppet test, you’re not sure exactly how the test should be written. You know that you want to test a resource with some extra attribute, but you may be describing the resource wrong, or using a bad regex to test the contents. Rspec-puppet will helpfully tell you when the […]
If you are writing rspec tests against your controlrepo, specifically your profile module, you need to set up your .fixtures.yml file to reference the other modules in your controlrepo. For example, here’s a list of the modules in the dist directory of a controlrepo: dist ├── eyaml ├── profile └── role If any of the […]
I’m a strong advocate of creating unit tests for your puppet code with rspec-puppet. I’ve written a number of articles on tests before, so here’s one more. When you’re testing a class, sometimes there’s an expectation that it’s used alongside another class or resource. But your test is only against your class, so how do […]
Peter Souter showed me a recent PR for the puppet-approved jenkins module where he parallelized the rspec tests. When there are a large number of tests in separate files, it can take a lot of time when run in series. Parallelizing the tests MAY offer a speed improvement; in Peter’s case, it reduced the time […]
When working on your puppet code, you’re going to want to run rspec against your tests on a regular basis. There are a few quirks to this process that we should cover quickly. “Normal” Usage Let’s start with a simple test of everything. You can do this with bundle exec rake spec (or the test […]
I’ve written a bit about rspec-puppet in the past (directly here, here, and here, and indirectly here and here). The state of rspec-puppet has changed over the past year and change, though. Let’s see if we can collect the current practices in one place. First, there’s a better way to deploy rspec-puppet than I wrote […]
Editor’s note: Please check out the much newer article Configuring Travis CI on a Puppet Module Repo for the new “best practices” around setting up rspec-puppet. You are encouraged to use the newer setup, though everything on this page will still work! I’ve covered puppet unit tests with rspec and beyond before. What if you […]
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