[chef] Re: Test-Kitchen running cookbook features

[Bryan Baugher < >]

Just so anyone else attempting this won't go crazy.

First thing is that in order to run feature/cucumber tests you must specify the 'runtimes' property. It would be nice if this was documented along side the doc for adding these tests, or this was an example showing this. Currently it is only documented alongside the runtimes property in text I would love to have bolded 'The default for cookbook projects is [], which effectively disables spec/feature tests.' I managed to glance over this for quite sometime because I didn't think runtimes applied to me.

Next issue is the mysql/apache2 cookbooks which the doc mentions as examples, don't specify the runtimes property in their Kitchenfile even though they have many cucumber tests written. Although this is very confusing there is actually a good reason for this. The boxes provided by opscode do not have rvm installed on them which is required in order to use the runtimes property. So if you want to use feature/cucumber tests with your cookbooks you will have to roll your own vagrant box(es). It should also be noted that there are issues at the time of writing this with the mysql cookbook and its tests (had to turn off lint testing and add attributes to the 'test' cookbook to get it all to run).

The next issue I had was this bug[1] I found. If you specify your runtimes below your configuration like this,

cookbook "my-cookbook" do
  configuration "default"
  runtimes ["ruby-1.9.3-p286"]
end

the feature/cucumber tests will not be run. You currently must specify your runtimes above any configuration.

On a side note I also ran into an issue when setting up my box. I had first installed Chef via omnibus installer[2]. I then installed rvm using the single user installation. This then caused my chef-solo/chef-client binaries to fail as they could not find the chef gem any longer. Not sure if this is an issue with the omnibus installation or something I did. I got around this by just installing chef into my rvm ruby as well.

[1] - http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/KITCHEN-47

[2] - http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:55 PM, < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi Chefs,

I have been trying out test-kitchen and was able to get everything to work
except the cucumber features. It seems like test-kitchen ignores these files. I
do see the full build as well as mini-test results but nothing about the
cucumber features.

I even tried testing the mysql cookbook, which once tweaked to run properly,
only seemed to showed mini-test results.

Could I be doing something wrong or is there something I am missing?

--
-Bryan