[chef] Re: Re: Unit testing HWRPs

[Andrew Gross < >]

Normally I try to keep all of the "logic" out of the provider and stick it into a library file instead, since those are easier to test.

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Noah Kantrowitz < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Unfortunately the best I've found is to use test-kitchen and minitest.

--Noah

On Jan 23, 2014, at 3:59 PM, Benjamin Bytheway < "> > wrote:

> I have a cookbook that uses LWRPs to configure some weblogic domains.  The LWRP is getting really complex and deserves (I think) to be made into an HWRP with more complete unit tests, etc.
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> Does anyone know of best practices for unit testing HRWPs like this?
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> I found that the dsh cookbook (https://github.com/rcbops-cookbooks/dsh) does have a spec tested HWRP, which ends up stubbing method calls on the chef providers used to prevent them from converging on the test machine. Is this the best approach to take?
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> Anyone have suggestions or places to start digging?
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> Thanks,
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> Ben