Build and Test Process¶
The buildtest build command is responsible for building and running tests. Every buildspec goes through a pipeline that discovers buildspecs, validates the buildspec and builds and runs the test. The buildspec must go through each stage of the pipeline, if it fails in one of the stage, the buildspec will be ignored.
Discover Buildspecs¶
buildtest will discover buildspecs based on command line arguments since you can build by file, directory, executor, or tags. In discover stage, buildtest will detect buildspecs which is discussed in Discover Buildspecs .
For every discovered buildspecs, buildtest will validate the buildspecs in the parse stage which is performed using jsonschema.validate library. The parser will validate every buildspec with the global schema named global.schema.json and one of the sub-schemas, check parsing buildspecs section for more details.
Parse Buildspecs¶
A buildspec file may contain one or more test sections specified via buildspec
field. Each test is validated by a sub-schema specified by type
field.
buildtest will validate the buildspec with global schema first and one of the subschemas used to validate
the test instance specified by type field. buildtest will seek the schema from its schema library
and validate the test section hello_world
with schema script.schema.json
.
Buildspecs will be ignored if it fails validation process for instance you may have an Invalid Buildspecs.
Invalid buildspecs won’t be sent to build stage since we can’t reliably build a test-script.
Building Buildspecs¶
buildtest will send all valid buildspecs to build phase which is responsible for building a shell-script from the buildspec file. In this stage, we create a Builder object that is an instance of BuilderBase class that is a base class for building a buildspec.
During build phase, there are additional checks on buildspecs to ensure we can generate a test-script. In the event of failure, buildtest will raise an exception and buildspec will be ignored. The ignored buildspecs are not sent to run stage
Running Buildspecs¶
In this stage, we run the test based on executors defined in configuration file. buildtest will
select the executor defined by executor
property in buildspec which is responsible for running the test. There is a BaseExecutor
that is a base-class for all executors. We have sub-class for each executor type (Local, Slurm, Cobalt, PBS, Cobalt). In this stage,
we run the test and get output, error, returncode and detect status of test (PASS
, FAIL
). If test is run via scheduler,
we submit job to scheduler and poll jobID until it is finished.
Upon completion of test, we update the Builder object with the test results which is written to report file.