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Debugging Acceptance Tests Using Beaker

Debugging Acceptance Tests Using Beaker

If you are writing acceptance tests for your SIMP module and using SIMP tooling, this guide will help you figure out what's going wrong.

Step-by-step guide

  1. Run your acceptance tests.  You can use rake -D acceptance and rake -D beaker to see all the variable available for acceptance testing.:

    $ BEAKER_destroy=onpass rake acceptance # or whatever rake command you need
    
    
  2. SSH into the created vagrant boxes and run the same manifests that beaker did:

    1. Change into the directory containing the generated Vagrantfiles

      $ cd .vagrant/beaker_vagrant_files/default.yml
    2. Run vagrant status to find the names of generated VMs

      $ vagrant status
      Current machine states:
      
      server                    running (virtualbox)
      client                    running (virtualbox)
      
      This environment represents multiple VMs. The VMs are all listed
      above with their current state. For more information about a specific
      VM, run `vagrant status NAME`.
    3. As vagrant user, SSH from the host machine into a VM listed in the output of the vagrant status command

      $ vagrant ssh server
    4. On the VM, become root

      $ sudo -s
    5. To examine the applied manifests, change to the /tmp directory

      # cd /tmp
    6. Find the manifests and apply them manually with puppet apply

      # ls
      apply_manifest.pp.yo1P5i
      # puppet apply apply_manifest.pp.yo1P5i
    7. When you are done debugging, exit out of your SSH session and destroy the VMs

      # exit
      $ exit
      $ vagrant destroy