#ansible-meeting log

17:00:42 <gundalow> #startmeeting Testing Working Group
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17:00:49 <gundalow> #chair gundalow mattclay
17:00:49 <zodbot> Current chairs: gundalow mattclay
17:00:54 <rcarrillocruz> o/
17:00:55 <gundalow> #topic Roll call
17:00:56 <gundalow> Who is here?
17:01:01 <rcarrillocruz> helo helo
17:01:01 * gundalow looks around
17:02:00 <gundalow> rcarrillocruz: shertel hey :)
17:02:13 <shertel> hello :)
17:02:41 <gundalow> #topic Agenda https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/114#issuecomment-239769027
17:02:44 <linuxdynasty> hello
17:02:49 * mattclay waves
17:03:03 <gundalow> #info Agenda for todays meeting is https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/114#issuecomment-239769027
17:03:27 <gundalow> #topic Introductions
17:04:03 <gundalow> So I've met a number of you here in #ansible-devel/meeting before and people that were at SanFran or the Contributors summit
17:04:25 <linuxdynasty> yep yep
17:04:26 <gundalow> Thanks for taking the time to join our first Testing Working Group meeting. Something we've all been lucking forward to for a while
17:04:35 <gundalow> linuxdynasty: hey :)
17:04:51 <linuxdynasty> sup :)
17:04:53 <gundalow> I'd like to introduce mattclay
17:05:09 <gundalow> mattclay: Would you please introduce yourself :)
17:05:45 <mattclay> Hello everyone. I'm glad to see there's some interest from the community in improving our testing.
17:06:02 <linuxdynasty> OH YEAAA. TESTING TESTING!!!
17:06:43 <mattclay> If you haven't noticed from the 2.2 roadmap already, we have an increased focus on testing for this release cycle.
17:07:08 <mattclay> I've been focusing on improving testing, mostly in areas around our CI setup.
17:07:44 <gundalow> We will go through the above in a little more detail later, mattclay's been doing lots of good stuff there
17:07:46 <mattclay> The most noticeable example, if you've been submitting or looking at PRs, is our move from Travis to Shippable.
17:07:53 <rcarrillocruz> yup
17:08:40 <gundalow> mattclay: cool, thanks
17:09:23 <gundalow> Who from the community side would like to introduce themselves?
17:09:44 * gundalow looks at shertel linuxdynasty rcarrillocruz
17:09:54 <rcarrillocruz> i can
17:09:55 <shertel> <is core>
17:10:02 <rcarrillocruz> so, i work in openstack
17:10:10 <rcarrillocruz> i'm a member of the openstack infra team
17:10:20 <rcarrillocruz> so I do quite a bit of CI and automation stuff
17:10:42 <rcarrillocruz> we use Zuul, and I heard there are plans to use Zuul and Ansible owning and infra
17:10:47 <gundalow> yes!
17:11:00 <rcarrillocruz> so i can help with that or whatever towards that goal
17:11:13 <rcarrillocruz> :-)
17:11:23 <gundalow> I believe the Zuul development team have some work they need to do first then we have lots of fun to look forward to
17:11:29 <rcarrillocruz> yep
17:11:52 <linuxdynasty> I work at Anki
17:12:04 <supertom> Intro: Hey folks, I'm with Google, and looking to not only increase the coverage in our own modules, but possibly offer support and resources elsewhere.
17:12:19 <gundalow> #info For people that don't know Zuul is part of the CI framework that OpenStack use - http://inaugust.com/talks/zuulv3.html#/  & https://specs.openstack.org/openstack-infra/infra-specs/specs/zuulv3.html
17:12:20 <linuxdynasty> I'm in charge of all the things automation and infrastructure at Anki
17:12:44 <linuxdynasty> I am a active AWS module developer, since we are an AWS shop
17:13:35 <shertel> I'm an intern with the Ansible core team. I'm a college student and still more or less a noob- still learning about everything.
17:13:37 <gundalow> excellent
17:13:45 <shertel> I wrote some smoke testing for the galaxy cli.
17:13:50 <linuxdynasty> supertom: you were at the developer conference correct?
17:14:06 <supertom> in SF?  Yes.
17:14:12 <linuxdynasty> ahh yeah I remember you :)
17:14:43 <linuxdynasty> Nice to meet you shertel
17:14:52 <shertel> Likewise!
17:14:54 <gundalow> Shameless plug, Do remember to sign up for AnsibleFest in Brooklyn on 11th October https://www.ansible.com/ansiblefest
17:15:15 <gundalow> Great, I was hoping some people would have met each other before
17:15:16 <supertom> uh-oh....
17:15:20 <linuxdynasty> I did, I want to speak again but this time longer than 25 minutes on building reusable roles
17:15:39 <linuxdynasty> but even if accepted not sure if company will sponsor
17:15:42 <linuxdynasty> but we  will see ;)
17:15:55 <gundalow> :)
17:16:17 <mattclay> I should have mentioned earlier, I'm on the Ansible core team as well.
17:16:23 <gundalow> oh, me too :)
17:16:31 <mattclay> 3 months now
17:16:44 <mattclay> :)
17:16:58 <gundalow> So I've been a contributer for quite a while, however I offically joined Ansible ~5 weeks ago
17:17:08 <rcarrillocruz> erm, yeah, forgot to mention that i'm one of the maintainers of the openstack modules
17:17:18 <rcarrillocruz> so happy to improve testing and stuff in that area
17:17:45 <gundalow> So, so that's good to see some maintainers, developers and vendors represented here
17:17:51 <gundalow> so I guess that's introductions done
17:18:11 <gundalow> #topic Purpose
17:18:20 <linuxdynasty> so 1st things 1st we all should be providing tests with all of our PR's
17:18:22 <linuxdynasty> all agree ;)
17:18:30 <gundalow> +10000000000000
17:18:53 <mattclay> linuxdynasty: That will be so much easier once we have everything in one repo.
17:19:07 <gundalow> So, for this to work best we (Ansible/Red Hat) are looking at how we can help you do great things
17:19:36 <gundalow> And as you'd expect, enabling and making it a lot easier to do testing is one of the best ways we can do that
17:20:16 <gundalow> As mattclay pointed out we currently have code split across three different GitRepos (ansible/{ansible,ansible-modules-core,ansible-modules-extras}
17:21:03 <gundalow> which is a pain, so all three of those will be merged into one repo which means Ansible, module_utils, modules and all tests will live in the same code base
17:21:32 <gundalow> Which means when you raise a PR to extend/change/create something you will get relevant tests run against it
17:21:37 <supertom> Tests, meaning, what specifically?  Integration and/or unit tests?
17:21:46 <gundalow> supertom: ALL :)
17:22:28 <gundalow> Static analysis (pep8/pylint/ansible-validate-modules) unit, and integration/functional
17:22:29 <supertom> OK, so, I'm not familiar with how to submit the unit tests, specifically?  Any runners required, certain directory locations, etc?
17:22:45 <supertom> Is there info on that?
17:23:01 <mattclay> Running the tests for PRs isn't too bad now. The problem is it takes multiple PRs to submit code changes and tests since they currently reside in different repos.
17:23:10 <abadger1999> unittests we use nose but patches have been accepted to make py.test work too.
17:23:21 <mattclay> Once the repos are merged, you can include code changes and updated/new tests in a single PR.
17:23:34 <abadger1999> The unittests mostly hinge on unittest.TestCase.
17:23:57 <abadger1999> directory is in the main ansible/ansible repo test/units/
17:24:37 <mattclay> Same for integration tests, but they are in test/integration/
17:24:48 <abadger1999> unittesting many modules is not very easy -- but refactoring of individual modules can help (i've just refactored core/files/stat.py so that it should be easier to unittest it)
17:24:53 <supertom> OK, thanks @abadger1999, @mattclay
17:24:55 <rcarrillocruz> what are the patterns for integration testing
17:25:02 <mattclay> The integration tests are usually written using Ansible playbooks.
17:25:03 <rcarrillocruz> i mean, let's say amacon ec2 for create a server
17:25:12 <linuxdynasty> once we show the community some good examples of modules that do not write everything in main
17:25:16 <rcarrillocruz> how you test things against a test cloud that the create server works?
17:25:18 <linuxdynasty> more modules will be unit testable ;)
17:25:28 <abadger1999> linuxdynasty: <nod>  +1
17:26:08 <linuxdynasty> rcarrillocruz: I have een hard coding the mock testing :(
17:26:23 <linuxdynasty> which I hate but I am going to look into using placebo or moto for aws
17:26:30 <linuxdynasty> here is an example of what I am doing today
17:26:31 <linuxdynasty> https://github.com/linuxdynasty/ansible-modules-extras/blob/de8af54c76386b05204ce7072a971f6066232b47/test/unit/cloud/amazon/test_ec2_vpc_nat_gateway.py
17:26:32 <rcarrillocruz> i see, so mocking...
17:26:38 <mattclay> rcarrillocruz: Currently we don't run integration tests during CI if they require external services which aren't free, although a developer can run them locally.
17:26:54 <rcarrillocruz> gotcha, thanks
17:27:14 <mattclay> That is something I'll be looking at in the future though.
17:27:18 <rcarrillocruz> i wondered if tehre was some sort of a eucalyptus stuff run in the CI to run tests against a 'real' cloud for example
17:27:19 <linuxdynasty> You can see in this module where I write the mock
17:27:19 <linuxdynasty> https://github.com/linuxdynasty/ansible-modules-extras/blob/de8af54c76386b05204ce7072a971f6066232b47/cloud/amazon/ec2_vpc_nat_gateway.py
17:27:24 <rcarrillocruz> ++
17:29:18 <linuxdynasty> mattclay: or gundalow if we can put some examples of well written modules in the docs section, I think that would be a great 1st step into introducing the community into testing
17:29:28 <gundalow> linuxdynasty: Already made a note :)
17:29:41 <linuxdynasty> from our last convo in san fran :P
17:30:15 <gundalow> Thank you for the suggestion. I think we can improve a lot of stuff by working on decent documentation and realistic examples
17:30:35 <gundalow> So I've defined the purpose of this group ad
17:30:39 <gundalow> as*
17:30:45 <gundalow> Publicise the testing roadmap and correlate feedback from the community
17:30:50 <gundalow> Fast track community PRs that are aligned with the Testing Strategy
17:30:56 <gundalow> Fast track functional (new modules, bug fixes) PRs that have tests
17:31:00 <gundalow> Make it easier to add/extend tests
17:31:05 <gundalow> Be the centralised place for feedback for all things testing related
17:31:08 <gundalow> and--
17:31:14 <gundalow> ffs, not adn
17:31:21 <gundalow> *cough*
17:32:05 <gundalow> So, do people think the above is OK for an initial stab at the purpose of this group?
17:32:12 <rcarrillocruz> sounds sensible to me
17:32:19 <shertel> +1
17:32:33 <gundalow> Obviously it will grow and evolve over time as we learn more
17:33:04 <gundalow> cool
17:33:22 <linuxdynasty> rcarrillocruz: and supertom does the openstack and google gce have ratelimiting errors like AWS in place?
17:33:35 <gundalow> Feedback on any of this welcome at anytime, we're here to help you
17:34:02 <supertom> @linuxdynasty: yes
17:34:09 <gundalow> #topic What's planned for 2.2 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/docsite/rst/roadmap/ROADMAP_2_2.rst
17:34:23 <linuxdynasty> I wrote this PR https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/17039 which has a base class called CloudRetry with a use case for AWSRetry based on a simple backoff algorithm that will work when an exception like LimitExceeded is encountered or eventual consistency
17:34:34 <rcarrillocruz> not to my knowledge
17:34:59 <linuxdynasty> so my question is could any of you implement CloudRetry for the provider you are working for, if you have those use cases in place
17:35:40 <linuxdynasty> we can take that off subject
17:35:48 <Shrews> ohai!  /me late to the party
17:36:17 <gundalow> Shrews: Hello (John Barker (the Brit), we were chatting about Zuul in SanFran
17:36:27 <Shrews> gundalow: yup, i remember  :)
17:36:30 <gundalow> linuxdynasty: We can return to that and the end if that's OK?
17:36:48 <linuxdynasty> ofcourse
17:36:49 <gundalow> On https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/docsite/rst/roadmap/ROADMAP_2_2.rst if you go down towards the end and look at the section "Infrastructure Buildout and Changes (Matt Clay)" you can see what mattclay has been working on and what has been *Done* already
17:38:06 <gundalow> mattclay has already talked about some parts on that. If you've not seen ROADMAP_2_2.rst it's a good place to see what we are planning. Its in the public so you guys can give feedback (in #ansible-devel or #ansible-meeting)
17:39:50 <gundalow> Obviously we are towards the tail end of 2.2. The 2.3 ROADMAP will get announced on the Google Mailing list when we have one
17:40:20 <gundalow> #topic Poll
17:41:13 <gundalow> So, as we have a decent representation of contributors and partners here it would be good to get some feedback on what *you* think should be the focus
17:41:32 <gundalow> I'm sure there are lots of smaller things that we can do that will make it a lot easier
17:41:50 <gundalow> for example the documentation update that linuxdynasty suggested
17:42:05 <rcarrillocruz> best practices would be good
17:42:14 <rcarrillocruz> tooling to use for tests
17:42:29 <rcarrillocruz> patterns for integration testing (i got from mattclay ansible playbooks) etc
17:42:41 <gundalow> so I'm going to hand over to https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/ansible-testing-working-group
17:42:56 <linuxdynasty> Accepted 3rd party modules for mock testing (Until Ansible gets an environment for each provider )
17:43:13 <linuxdynasty> AWS, GCE, CloudStack, Azure, etc..
17:43:14 <gundalow> so if people can spend a couple of minutes adding stuff on onto there we can then go through and flesh out
17:43:34 <gundalow> So I'll give you 5 minutes to all add stuff onto https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/ansible-testing-working-group
17:43:44 <gundalow> :)
17:47:06 <gundalow> There are more people that rcarrillocruz and Allen here :)
17:48:39 <gundalow> Anyone else got anything, if not we can go through
17:49:11 <gundalow> So if people can please add (+1/-1) next to items you think are a priority. If you think something shouldn't be done (rather than is a lower priority) please add "-1"
17:49:18 <gundalow> on https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/ansible-testing-working-group
17:51:48 <supertom> I actually need to run, but I'm +1 on it in general from what I see.
17:52:20 <gundalow> supertom: Thank you for your time, please subscribe to https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/114 to be kept in the loop.
17:52:43 <supertom> done, thanks everyone!
17:53:17 <gundalow> Cool. So it's good to see that people are now happier with the speed of tests (2*-1)
17:53:37 <alikins> (late introduction due to pdb induced tunnel vision...) I'm Adrian LIkins from Red Hat on the ansible core team. I like tests because I break things.
17:53:52 <gundalow> alikins: :)
17:54:36 <gundalow> Shrews: You've asked a good question about pep8. We define pep8ish as pep8 -r  --ignore=E501,E221,W291,W391,E302,E251,E203,W293,E231,E303,E201,E225,E261,E241,E402
17:55:28 <Shrews> So is that run on the code now? Or is that proposed?
17:55:47 <gundalow> What I'd like to do, and what I plan to do for ansible-modules-core/network/ (because I own that) is to get the vendor directories under that to be "pep8ish" compliant. This is even more important for the Network Modules (ansible.com/network) as we don't currently have any CI tests
17:56:17 <gundalow> So initially it would be black/whitelist of directories to check.
17:56:37 <gundalow> We do something similar with checking for Python3 compatability
17:56:49 <gundalow> Shrews: proposed
17:56:56 <bcoca> gundalow: iirc the pep8sh tests should already be there
17:57:13 <Shrews> yeah, b/c you can't just turn that on for everything. doing it piecemeal sounds right
17:57:40 <gundalow> bcoca: I've not seen them, they might be there, but not enabled at the moment?
17:57:53 <bcoca> well, most existing modules are excluded, they probably only affect new submissions
17:58:01 <gundalow> ah, yes
17:58:04 <bcoca> @mattclay ^ or am i totally wrong?
17:58:47 <mattclay> We have our pep8ish tests, but I don't think we're running them on CI.
17:59:10 <Shrews> they must be *very* permissive rules b/c i don't recall ever having seen a pep8 failure for new modules
17:59:26 <gundalow> So Ansile staff have another meeting now
17:59:35 <bcoca> ah, my bad, thought the whole point of adding them was to run them in CI
18:00:30 <gundalow> So we will look at improving that
18:01:03 <gundalow> So one last thing that would help, if people could add a few lines to the end of https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/ansible-testing-working-group detailing what they are happy to help with
18:01:12 <gundalow> That will make sure we keep the right people in the loop
18:02:15 <gundalow> And any items for discussion to https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/114
18:02:27 <gundalow> Thank you all for your time today
18:02:39 <Shrews> thx gundalow
18:02:53 <linuxdynasty> thank you all
18:02:53 <gundalow> #endmeeting