corteza/tests

Corteza Server integration and e2e tests

Main goal of these integration tests is to test entire system with the database and without any other external services.

What, how and why we test:

• Handling input:

  How HTTP traffic is handled (standard HTTP requests, websocket communication), to ensure proper response on valid, invalid or harmful input.

• Configuration:

  How system behaves under different settings to cover as much different configuration scenarios as possible.

• Security:

  Are we handling access control and log events (audit log) properly? All services and data should be protected to prevent unwanted access and modifications

• Scenarios:

  Are complex scenarios executed as designed (e.g. is password recovery email sent and can link from the email be used)

• Integration with external services

  All external services (with exception to database) are mocked but we do test if communication to these services take place and if

• Database schema & data migrations

  Database migration is executed as one of the first steps in automation tests. This can be turned off to enable running tests on live/testing database.

  Entire test suite is ran inside transaction so we can rollback all changes that occurred while testing