Testing a service while developing it

As described in Testing (VO)DIRAC a way to test a service is to run an integration test, that can run when the service is actually running. It is also possible to write a proper unit test, but this is not the usually recommended way. Reasons are:

• It’s not trivial to write a unit test for a service: reason being, the DIRAC framework can’t be easily mocked.

• The code inside a service is (should be) simple, no logic should be embedded in there: so, what you want to test, is its integration.

Exercise 1:

Write an integration test for HelloHandler. This test should use python unittest, and should assume that the Hello service is running. The test stub follows:

# imports
import unittest
# sut
from DIRAC.Core.DISET.RPCClient import RPCClient

class TestHelloHandler( unittest.TestCase ):

  def setUp( self ):
    self.helloService = RPCClient('Framework/Hello')

  def tearDown( self ):
    pass

class TestHelloHandlerSuccess( TestHelloHandler ):

  def test_success( self ):


class TestHelloHandlerFailure( TestHelloHandler ):

  def test_failure( self ):



if __name__ == '__main__':
  suite = unittest.defaultTestLoader.loadTestsFromTestCase( TestHelloHandler )
  suite.addTest( unittest.defaultTestLoader.loadTestsFromTestCase( TestHelloHandlerSuccess ) )
  suite.addTest( unittest.defaultTestLoader.loadTestsFromTestCase( TestHelloHandlerFailure ) )
  testResult = unittest.TextTestRunner( verbosity = 2 ).run( suite )

As said, examples can be found in the DIRAC/tests package.