Functest capabilities and usage

Overview of the test suites

Functest is the OPNFV project primarily targeting function testing. In the Continuous Integration pipeline, it is launched after an OPNFV fresh installation to validate and verify the basic functions of the infrastructure.

The current list of test suites can be distributed in 3 main domains:

+----------------+----------------+-------------------------------------------+
| Domain         | Test suite     | Comments                                  |
+================+================+===========================================+
|                | vPing          | NFV "Hello World" using SSH connection    |
|                |                | and floatting IP                          |
|                +----------------+-------------------------------------------+
|    VIM         | vPing_userdata | Ping using userdata and cloud-init        |
|                |                | mechanism                                 |
|                +----------------+-------------------------------------------+
|(Virtualised    | Tempest        | OpenStack reference test suite `[2]`_     |
| Infrastructure +----------------+-------------------------------------------+
| Manager)       | Rally bench    | OpenStack testing tool benchmarking       |
|                |                | OpenStack modules `[3]`_                  |
+----------------+----------------+-------------------------------------------+
|                | OpenDaylight   | Opendaylight Test suite                   |
|                +----------------+-------------------------------------------+
| Controllers    | ONOS           | Test suite of ONOS L2 and L3 functions    |
|                +----------------+-------------------------------------------+
|                | OpenContrail   |                                           |
+----------------+----------------+-------------------------------------------+
| Features       | vIMS           | Example of a real VNF deployment to show  |
|                |                | the NFV capabilities of the platform.     |
|                |                | The IP Multimedia Subsytem is a typical   |
|                |                | Telco test case, referenced by ETSI.      |
|                |                | It provides a fully functional VoIP System|
|                +----------------+-------------------------------------------+
|                | Promise        | Resource reservation and management       |
|                |                | project to identify NFV related           |
|                |                | requirements and realize resource         |
|                |                | reservation for future usage by capacity  |
|                |                | management of resource pools regarding    |
|                |                | compute, network and storage.             |
|                +----------------+-------------------------------------------+
|                | SDNVPN         |                                           |
+----------------+----------------+-------------------------------------------+

Functest includes different test suites with several test cases within. Some of the tests are developed by Functest team members whereas others are integrated from upstream communities or other OPNFV projects. For example, Tempest is the OpenStack integration test suite and Functest is in charge of the selection, integration and automation of the tests that fit in OPNFV.

The Tempest suite has been customized but no new test cases have been created. Some OPNFV feature projects (e.g. SDNVPN) have written some Tempest tests cases and pushed upstream to be used by Functest.

The results produced by the tests run from CI are pushed and collected in a NoSQL database. The goal is to populate the database with results from different sources and scenarios and to show them on a Dashboard.

There is no real notion of Test domain or Test coverage. Basic components (VIM, controllers) are tested through their own suites. Feature projects also provide their own test suites with different ways of running their tests.

vIMS test case was integrated to demonstrate the capability to deploy a relatively complex NFV scenario on top of the OPNFV infrastructure.

Functest considers OPNFV as a black box. OPNFV, since the Brahmaputra release, offers lots of potential combinations:

  • 3 controllers (OpenDayligh, ONOS, OpenContrail)
  • 4 installers (Apex, Compass, Fuel, Joid)

Most of the tests are runnable on any combination, but some others might have restrictions imposed by the installers or the available deployed features.

Executing the functest suites

Manual testing

Once the Functest docker container is running and Functest environment ready (through /home/opnfv/repos/functest/docker/prepare_env.sh script), the system is ready to run the tests.

The script run_tests.sh launches the test in an automated way. Although it is possible to execute the different tests manually, it is recommended to use the previous shell script which makes the call to the actual scripts with the appropriate parameters.

It is located in $repos_dir/functest/docker and it has several options:

./run_tests.sh -h
Script to trigger the tests automatically.

usage:
    bash run_tests.sh [-h|--help] [-r|--report] [-n|--no-clean] [-t|--test <test_name>]

where:
    -h|--help         show this help text
    -r|--report       push results to database (false by default)
    -n|--no-clean     do not clean up OpenStack resources after test run
    -s|--serial       run tests in one thread
    -t|--test         run specific set of tests
      <test_name>     one or more of the following separated by comma:
                         vping_ssh,vping_userdata,odl,rally,tempest,vims,onos,promise,ovno

examples:
    run_tests.sh
    run_tests.sh --test vping,odl
    run_tests.sh -t tempest,rally --no-clean

The -r option is used by the OPNFV Continuous Integration automation mechanisms in order to push the test results into the NoSQL results collection database. This database is read only for a regular user given that it needs special rights and special conditions to push data.

The -t option can be used to specify the list of a desired test to be launched, by default Functest will launch all the test suites in the following order: vPing, Tempest, vIMS, Rally.

A single or set of test may be launched at once using -t <test_name> specifying the test name or names separated by commas in the following list: [vping,vping_userdata,odl,rally,tempest,vims,onos,promise].

The -n option is used for preserving all the possible OpenStack resources created by the tests after their execution.

Please note that Functest includes cleaning mechanism in order to remove all the VIM resources except what was present before running any test. The script $repos_dir/functest/testcases/VIM/OpenStack/CI/libraries/generate_defaults.py is called once by prepare_env.sh when setting up the Functest environment to snapshot all the OpenStack resources (images, networks, volumes, security groups, tenants, users) so that an eventual cleanup does not remove any of this defaults.

The -s option forces execution of test cases in a single thread. Currently this option affects Tempest test cases only and can be used e.g. for troubleshooting concurrency problems.

The script $repos_dir/functest/testcases/VIM/OpenStack/CI/libraries/clean_openstack.py is normally called after a test execution if the -n is not specified. It is in charge of cleaning the OpenStack resources that are not specified in the defaults file generated previously which is stored in /home/opnfv/functest/conf/os_defaults.yaml in the docker container.

It is important to mention that if there are new OpenStack resources created manually after preparing the Functest environment, they will be removed if this flag is not specified in the run_tests.sh command. The reason to include this cleanup meachanism in Functest is because some test suites such as Tempest or Rally create a lot of resources (users, tenants, networks, volumes etc.) that are not always properly cleaned, so this cleaning function has been set to keep the system as clean as it was before a full Functest execution.

Within the Tempest test suite it is possible to define which test cases to execute by editing test_list.txt file before executing run_tests.sh script. This file is located in $repos_dir/functest/testcases/VIM/OpenStack/CI/custom_tests/test_list.txt

Although run_tests.sh provides an easy way to run any test, it is possible to do a direct call to the desired test script. For example:

python $repos_dir/functest/testcases/vPing/vPing.py -d

Automated testing

As mentioned in [1], the prepare-env.sh and run_test.sh can be called within the container from Jenkins. There are 2 jobs that automate all the manual steps explained in the previous section. One job runs all the tests and the other one allows testing test suite by test suite specifying the test name. The user might use one or the other job to execute the desired test suites.

One of the most challenging task in the Brahmaputra release consists in dealing with lots of scenarios and installers. Thus, when the tests are automatically started from CI, a basic algorithm has been created in order to detect whether a given test is runnable or not on the given scenario. Some Functest test suites cannot be systematically run (e.g. ODL suite can not be run on an ONOS scenario).

CI provides some useful information passed to the container as environment variables:

  • Installer (apex|compass|fuel|joid), stored in INSTALLER_TYPE
  • Installer IP of the engine or VM running the actual deployment, stored in INSTALLER_IP
  • The scenario [controller]-[feature]-[mode], stored in DEPLOY_SCENARIO with
    • controller = (odl|onos|ocl|nosdn)
    • feature = (ovs(dpdk)|kvm)
    • mode = (ha|noha)

The constraints per test case are defined in the Functest configuration file /home/opnfv/functest/config/config_functest.yaml:

test-dependencies:
   functest:
       vims:
           scenario: '(ocl)|(odl)|(nosdn)'
       vping:
       vping_userdata:
           scenario: '(ocl)|(odl)|(nosdn)'
       tempest:
       rally:
       odl:
           scenario: 'odl'
       onos:
           scenario: 'onos'
       ....

At the end of the Functest environment creation (prepare_env.sh see `[1]`_), a file /home/opnfv/functest/conf/testcase-list.txt is created with the list of all the runnable tests. Functest considers the static constraints as regular expressions and compare them with the given scenario name. For instance, ODL suite can be run only on an scenario including ‘odl’ in its name.

The order of execution is also described in the Functest configuration file:

test_exec_priority:

   1: vping_ssh
   2: vping_userdata
   3: tempest
   4: odl
   5: onos
   6: ovno
   7: doctor
   8: promise
   9: odl-vpnservice
   10: bgpvpn
   11: openstack-neutron-bgpvpn-api-extension-tests
   12: vims
   13: rally

The tests are executed in the following order:

  • Basic scenario (vPing_ssh, vPing_userdata, Tempest)
  • Controller suites: ODL or ONOS or OpenContrail
  • Feature projects (promise, vIMS)
  • Rally (benchmark scenario)

As explained before, at the end of an automated execution, the OpenStack resources might be eventually removed.