Best way to test plugin?

[Kenny Ho]

Hi,

I am trying to add test to my plugin, but I am having a lot of trouble setting up all the dependencies.  Does anyone have any advice on this subject?  Being in the plugin development environment, I don't have access to some of the test utilities in the main project.  I noticed the Replication plugin uses EasyMock but I don't think it does integration test simulate server events (I don't think.)  What are the best practices?  Do I need to duplicate some of the test utilities like the acceptance test framework from the main project in order to test the plugin?

Regards,

Kenny

[Kenny Ho]

Oh... I just saw this older commit log for the acceptance framework (https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit/+/947b5e53ac75f8085fd9dd5c3bd05dbf284ee288)  Looks like plugins should be able to include the acceptance framework for testing similar to jgit.junit.  (Too bad it's only available from 2.12-rc0... I really should upgrade my server...)

[Marco Miller]

Hi,

You can also refer to gerrit/plugins/cookbook-plugin's CookbookIT class,
which introduces usage of PluginDaemonTest as parent
(below acceptance.AbstractDaemonTest).

And these open changes are bringing http support once merged:
[1] https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/#/q/topic:http-plugin-IT

The events-log plugin is also currently being changed based on [1]:
[2] https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/#/q/topic:events-log-IT

/Marco

[Kenny Ho]

Sweet, thanks!