Running Tests
Tests are stored in Kubernetes clusters as Custom Resources. Testkube tests are reusable and can get results with the use of kubectl testkube plugin or with an API.
Running
Running tests looks the same for any type of test.
In this example, we have previously created a test with the name api-incluster-test.
Standard Run Command
This is an example of the simplest run command:
testkube run test api-incluster-test
Type : postman/collection
Name : api-incluster-test
Execution ID : 615d6398b046f8fbd3d955d4
Execution name: openly-full-bream
Test queued for execution
Use the following command to get test execution details:
$ kubectl testkube get execution 615d6398b046f8fbd3d955d4
Or watch test execution until complete:
$ kubectl testkube watch execution 615d6398b046f8fbd3d955d4
Testkube will inform us about possible commands to get test results:
testkube get execution 615d6398b046f8fbd3d955d4to get execution details.testkube watch execution 615d6398b046f8fbd3d955d4to watch the current pending execution. Watch will also get details when a test is completed and is good for long running tests to lock your terminal until test execution completes.
Run with Watch for Changes
If we want to wait until a test execution completes we can pass the -f flag (follow) to the test run command:
testkube run test api-incluster-test -f
Type : postman/collection
Name : api-incluster-test
Execution ID : 615d7e1ab046f8fbd3d955d6
Execution name: monthly-sure-finch
Test queued for execution
Use the following command to get test execution details:
$ kubectl testkube get execution 615d7e1ab046f8fbd3d955d6
Or watch test execution until complete:
$ kubectl testkube watch execution 615d7e1ab046f8fbd3d955d6
Watching for changes
Status: pending, Duration: 222.387ms
Status: pending, Duration: 1.210689s
Status: pending, Duration: 2.201346s
Status: pending, Duration: 3.198539s
Status: success, Duration: 595ms
Getting results
Name: monthly-sure-finch, Status: success, Duration: 595ms
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API-Health
→ Health
GET http://testkube-api-server:8088/health [200 OK, 124B, 282ms]
✓ Status code is 200
┌─────────────────────────┬────────────────────┬───────────────────┐
│ │ executed │ failed │
├─────────────────────────┼────────────────────┼───────────────────┤
│ iterations │ 1 │ 0 │
├─────────────────────────┼────────────────────┼───────────────────┤
│ requests │ 1 │ 0 │
├─────────────────────────┼────────────────────┼───────────────────┤
│ test-scripts │ 2 │ 0 │
├─────────────────────────┼────────────────────┼───────────────────┤
│ prerequest-scripts │ 1 │ 0 │
├─────────────────────────┼────────────────────┼───────────────────┤
│ assertions │ 1 │ 0 │
├─────────────────────────┴────────────────────┴───────────────────┤
│ total run duration: 519ms │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ total data received: 8B (approx) │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ average response time: 282ms [min: 282ms, max: 282ms, s.d.: 0µs] │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Use the following command to get test execution details:
$ kubectl testkube get execution 615d7e1ab046f8fbd3d955d6
Test execution completed in 595ms
This command will wait until the test execution completes.
Passing Parameters
For some 'real world' tests, configuration variables are passed in order to run them on different environments or with different test configurations.
Let's assume that our example Cypress test needs the testparam parameter with the value testvalue.
This is done by using the --variable flag (or just -v). If you need to pass more parameters, either pass the values as a comma-separated string or simply pass multiple -v flags.
It's possible to pass parameters securely to the executed test. It's necessary to use the --secret flag,
which contains a key value pair - a name of the Kubernetes secret and a secret key.
It can be passed multiple times if needed.
kubectl testkube run test kubeshop-cypress -v testparam=testvalue -f --secret secret-name=secret-key
Type : cypress/project
Name : kubeshop-cypress
Execution ID : 615d5372b046f8fbd3d955d2
Execution name: nominally-able-glider
Test queued for execution
Use the following command to get test execution details:
$ kubectl testkube get execution 615d5372b046f8fbd3d955d2
or watch test execution until complete:
$ kubectl testkube watch execution 615d5372b046f8fbd3d955d2
Watching for changes
Status: queued, Duration: 0s
Status: pending, Duration: 383.064ms
....
Status: pending, Duration: 1m45.405939s
Status: success, Duration: 1m45.405939s
Getting results
Name: nominally-able-glider, Status: success, Duration: 2562047h47m16.854775807s
====================================================================================================
(Run Starting)
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Cypress: 8.5.0 │
│ Browser: Electron 91 (headless) │
│ Specs: 1 found (simple-test.js) │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Running: simple-test.js (1 of 1)
(Results)
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Tests: 1 │
│ Passing: 1 │
│ Failing: 0 │
│ Pending: 0 │
│ Skipped: 0 │
│ Screenshots: 0 │
│ Video: true │
│ Duration: 19 seconds │
│ Spec Ran: simple-test.js │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
(Video)
- Started processing: Compressing to 32 CRF
Compression progress: 39%
Compression progress: 81%
- Finished processing: /tmp/testkube-scripts531364188/repo/examples/cypress/videos/ (30 seconds)
simple-test.js.mp4
Compression progress: 100%
====================================================================================================
(Run Finished)
Spec Tests Passing Failing Pending Skipped
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ✔ simple-test.js 00:19 1 1 - - - │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
✔ All specs passed! 00:19 1 1 - - -
Use the following command to get test execution details:
$ kubectl testkube get execution 615d5372b046f8fbd3d955d2
Test execution completed in 1m45.405939s
Mapping Local Files
Local files can be set on the execution of a Testkube Test. Pass the file in the format source_path:destination_path using the flag --copy-files.
testkube run test maven-example-file-test --copy-files "/Users/local_user/local_maven_settings.xml:/tmp/settings.xml" --args "--settings" --args "/tmp/settings.xml" -v "TESTKUBE_MAVEN=true"
By default, there is a 10 second timeout limit on all requests on the client side and a 1 GB body size limit on the server side. To update the timeout, use --upload-timeout with Go-compatible duration formats.
Injected Environment Variables
The following environment variables are automatically injected into each executed test pod:
DEBUG: if debug mode is on
RUNNER_ENDPOINT: MinIO endpoint
RUNNER_ACCESSKEYID: MinIO access key id
RUNNER_SECRETACCESSKEY: MinIO secret access key
RUNNER_REGION: MinIO region
RUNNER_TOKEN: MinIO token
RUNNER_SSL: if MinIO SSL is on
RUNNER_SCRAPPERENABLED: if scraping is on
RUNNER_DATADIR: data directory
RUNNER_CDEVENTS_TARGET: CDEvents target endpoint
RUNNER_COMPRESSARTIFACTS: if artfifacts should be compressed
RUNNER_PRO_MODE: pro mode
RUNNER_PRO_API_KEY: pro API key
RUNNER_PRO_API_TLS_INSECURE: if pro connection is insecure
RUNNER_PRO_API_URL: pro API URL
RUNNER_PRO_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT: pro connection timeout limit
RUNNER_PRO_API_SKIP_VERIFY: if pro connection TLS verification is off
RUNNER_CLOUD_MODE: DEPRECATED: please use RUNNER_PRO_MODE instead
RUNNER_CLOUD_API_KEY: DEPRECATED: please use RUNNER_PRO_API_KEY instead
RUNNER_CLOUD_API_TLS_INSECURE: DEPRECATED: please use RUNNER_PRO_API_TLS_INSECURE instead
RUNNER_CLOUD_API_URL: DEPRECATED: please use RUNNER_PRO_API_URL instead
RUNNER_CLOUD_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT: DEPRECATED: please use RUNNER_PRO_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT instead
RUNNER_CLOUD_API_SKIP_VERIFY: DEPRECATED: please use RUNNER_PRO_API_SKIP_VERITY instead
RUNNER_DASHBOARD_URI: dashboard URI
CI: CI flag
RUNNER_CLUSTERID: cluster id
RUNNER_BUCKET: MinIO bucket
RUNNER_WORKINGDIR: working directory
RUNNER_EXECUTIONID: test execution ID
RUNNER_TESTNAME: test name
RUNNER_EXECUTIONNUMBER: test execution number
RUNNER_CONTEXTTYPE: running context type
RUNNER_CONTEXTDATA: running context data
RUNNER_APIURI: API URI
Summary
As we can see, running tests in a Kubernetes cluster is really easy with use of the Testkube kubectl plugin!