Testing

Introduction

Along with RADICAL-Pilot functionalities, we are developing a growing set of unit tests. The source code of the unit tests can be found in src/radical/pilot/tests. You can run the unit tests via pytest:

export RADICAL_PILOT_LOG_LVL=debug
pytest tests/

Remote Testing

Warning

Remote Testing is disabled in the current release!

By default, the unit tests of RADICAL-Pilot use pilot agents launched on the local machine (localhost). However, it is possible to run a subset of the unit tests (src/radical/pilot/tests/remote/) on a remote machine. Remote testing can be controlled via a set of environment variables:

Environment Variable

What

RADICAL_PILOT_TEST_REMOTE_RESOURCE

Name (key) of the resource.

RADICAL_PILOT_TEST_REMOTE_SSH_USER_ID

User ID on the remote system.

RADICAL_PILOT_TEST_REMOTE_SSH_USER_KEY

SSH key to use for the connection.

RADICAL_PILOT_TEST_REMOTE_WORKDIR

Work directory on the remote system.

RADICAL_PILOT_TEST_REMOTE_CORES

Number of cores to allocate.

RADICAL_PILOT_TEST_REMOTE_NUM_CUS

Number of Tasks to run.

RADICAL_PILOT_TEST_TIMEOUT

Test timeout in minutes.

For example, if you want to run the unit tests on the XSEDE/ACCESS _Bridges_ cluster (https://portal.xsede.org/psc-bridges), run

RADICAL_PILOT_LOG_LVl=DEBUG \
RADICAL_PILOT_TEST_REMOTE_SSH_USER_ID=<your_user_id> \ # optional
RADICAL_PILOT_TEST_REMOTE_RESOURCE=access.bridges \
RADICAL_PILOT_TEST_REMOTE_WORKDIR=<absolute_path> \
RADICAL_PILOT_TEST_REMOTE_CORES=16 \
RADICAL_PILOT_TEST_REMOTE_NUM_CUS=64 \
python setup.py test

Note

Be aware that it can take quite some time for pilots to get scheduled on the remote system. You can set RADICAL_PILOT_TEST_TIMEOUT to force the tests to abort after a given number of minutes.

Adding New Tests

If you want to add a new tests, for example to reproduce an error that you have encountered, please follow this procedure:

In the tests/issues/ directory, create a new file. If applicable, name it after the issues number in the RADICAL-Pilot issues tracker, e.g., issue_123.py.

The content of the file should look like this (make sure to change the class name):

import sys
import radical.pilot

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
class TestIssue123(object):

    #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    #
    def test_issue_123_part_1(self):
        """ https://github.com/radical-cybertools/radical.pilot/issues/123
        """
        session = radical.pilot.Session()

        # Your test implementation

        session.close()

Now you can re-install RADICAL-Pilot and run your new test. In the source root, run:

pip install --upgrade .
pytest -v tests/issues/issue_123::TestIssue123