The goal of this page is to document how the Environments group uses the GitLab QA framework (video walkthrough) to implement and run end-to-end tests.
Supporting slides for the above walkthrough
End-to-end testing is a strategy used to check whether your application works as expected across the entire software stack and architecture, including the integration of all micro-services and components that are supposed to work together.
The testing strategy for this level of the pyramid can be found under the Environments Test Plan epic.
In the GitLab repository, the End-to-End tests for the Environments group are located at:
qa/qa/specs/features/api/7_configure/
qa/qa/specs/features/browser_ui/7_configure/
qa/qa/specs/features/ee/api/7_configure/
qa/qa/specs/features/ee/browser_ui/7_configure/
End-to-End tests for Environments are running only in staging and staging-canary environments. It is not possible to run these kind of tests against your local GDK without directly tweaking the test code.
If you have an MR and want to make sure it is running the End-to-End tests, please trigger the manual e2e:package-and-test
job on the pipeline of your MR. After the pipeline runs there will be a note on your MR titled "Allure report" with a test report link.
It is also possible to see which jobs failed in the e2e:package-and-test
pipeline directly.
Note: Currently, the tests most relevant for Environments run only on staging and staging canary environments.
Tests running in staging need access to https://ops.gitlab.net/gitlab-org/quality/staging/.
The results of test runs can be found also in the #qa-staging
Slack channel. The jobs in the staging pipeline that are relevant to Environments are:
ee-qa-api
qa-browser_ui-7_configure
Environments End-to-end tests use the gitlab-qa-resources
project in GCP to spin up GKE clusters.
The project belongs and it is maintained by the Quality Engineering department.
The version in use can be found on the Runtime Environment Variables file.
Please reach out to your counterpart SET or in the #quality
channel.