There was no easy way to automatically test the end-to-end functionality
of commands, flags, environment variables etc.
The need for end-to-end testing was highlighted by the issues fixed
in #5341. There was no automated test to continually verify current
behaviour, nor a framework to quickly test the correctness of the fixes.
This change adds an end-to-end testing framework in the cmdtest folder.
It has some simple examples in func TestCmdTest in cmdtest_test.go. The
tests should be readable by anybody familiar with rclone and look like
this:
// Test the rclone version command with debug logging (-vv)
out, err = rclone("version", "-vv")
if assert.NoError(t, err) {
assert.Contains(t, out, "rclone v")
assert.Contains(t, out, "os/version:")
assert.Contains(t, out, " DEBUG : ")
}
The end-to-end tests are executed just like the Go unit tests, that is:
go test ./cmdtest -v
The change also contains a thorough test of environment variables in
environment_test.go.
Thanks to @ncw for encouragement and introduction to the TestMain trick.
Nick Craig-Wood