Cookbook: minitest-handler
Author: Bryan McLellan btm@loftninjas.org
Copyright: 2012 Opscode, Inc.
License: Apache 2.0

Description

This cookbook utilizes the minitest-chef-handler project to facilitate cookbook testing.

minitest-chef-handler project: https://github.com/calavera/minitest-chef-handler
stable minitest-handler cookbook: http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/minitest-handler
minitest-handler cookbook development: https://github.com/btm/minitest-handler-cookbook

Attributes

node[:minitest][:path] - Location to store and find tests

Usage

• The node run list should begin with 'recipe[chef-minitest]'
• Each cookbook should contain tests in the 'files/default/tests/minitest' directory with a file suffix of '_test.rb'

Minitest: https://github.com/seattlerb/minitest

Example

class TestApache2 < MiniTest::Chef::TestCase
  def test_that_the_package_installed
    case node[:platform]
    when "ubuntu","debian"
      assert system('apt-cache policy apache2 | grep Installed | grep -v none')
    end
  end

  def test_that_the_service_is_running
    assert system('/etc/init.d/apache2 status')
  end

  def test_that_the_service_is_enabled
    assert File.exists?(Dir.glob("/etc/rc5.d/S*apache2").first)
  end
end

Changelog

v0.0.5

• Install the minitest-chef-handler gem instead of downloading from github directly
• Remove tests from cookbooks no longer in the run list

v0.0.4

Add examples/ top level directory (may not work)