Update README to clarify the common testing scenarios
Change-Id: I80f0ac743f8ab7d22733cfc16ddead5101546665
Signed-off-by: garciadeblas <gerardo.garciadeblas@telefonica.com>
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0c8afbf..ad0cde8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
# OSM test automation project - osm/tests
-This repository contains tools and configuration files for testing and automation needs of OSM projet
+This repository contains tools and configuration files for testing and automation needs of OSM project.
## Prerequisites
@@ -25,18 +25,33 @@
- VIM already registered in OSM
- K8s cluster already registered in OSM (for tests involving a K8s cluster)
-## Quickstart (run tests using docker)
+## Quickstart. How to run tests using OSM docker images
### Configure the environment file
+Create a file `envconfig.rc` copying from `envconfig-local.rc` and set the required variables.
+
```
-export OSM_HOSTNAME=<OSM_IP_ADDRESS>
-export VIM_TARGET=<VIM_REGISTERED_AT_OSM>
-export VIM_MGMT_NET=<NAME_OF_THE_MGMT_NETWORK_IN_THE_VIM>
-export K8S_CREDENTIALS= # path to the kubeconfig file of the K8s cluster to be tested
-export OS_CLOUD= # OpenStack Cloud defined in $HOME/.config/openstack/clouds.yaml or in /etc/openstack/clouds.yaml
+OSM_HOSTNAME=<OSM_IP_ADDRESS>
+VIM_TARGET=<VIM_REGISTERED_AT_OSM>
+VIM_MGMT_NET=<NAME_OF_THE_MGMT_NETWORK_IN_THE_VIM>
+OS_CLOUD=<OPENSTACK_CLOUD> # OpenStack Cloud defined in $HOME/.config/openstack/clouds.yaml or in /etc/openstack/clouds.yaml
```
+### Run the tests
+
+```bash
+docker run --rm=true --name tests -t --env-file envconfig.rc \
+ -v ~/.config/openstack/clouds.yaml:/etc/openstack/clouds.yaml \
+ -v ~/tests/reports:/robot-systest/reports \
+ opensourcemano/tests:testing-daily \
+ -t sanity
+```
+
+You can use a different robot tag instead of `sanity`. The whole list of tags are gathered below in this README.
+
+## How to build docker container for tests and run tests from there
+
### Create the docker container
```bash
@@ -53,28 +68,17 @@
-t sol003_01
```
-You can use a different robot tag instead of `sol003_01`. The whole list of tags are gathered below in this README.
-
-## How to run sanity tests using daily images from master branch
-
-```bash
-docker run --rm=true --name tests -t --env-file envconfig.rc \
- -v ~/.config/openstack/clouds.yaml:/etc/openstack/clouds.yaml \
- -v ~/tests/reports:/robot-systest/reports \
- opensourcemano/tests:testing-daily \
- -t sanity
-```
-
## How to mount local tests folder for developing purposes
-The following line will mount the required files for `sol003_01` testuite and will execute that testsuite:
+The following line will mount the folder `robot-systest`, including all libraries and testuites, and will execute the testsuite `sol003_01`:
```bash
docker run --rm=true --name tests -t --env-file envconfig.rc \
-v ~/.config/openstack/clouds.yaml:/etc/openstack/clouds.yaml \
+ -v ~/tests/robot-systest:/robot-systest \
-v ~/tests/reports:/robot-systest/reports \
- -v ~/tests/robot-systest/lib/sol003_common_lib.robot:/robot-systest/lib/sol003_common_lib.robot \
- osmtests \
+ -v ~/osm-packages:/robot-systest/osm-packages \
+ opensourcemano/tests:testing-daily \
-t sol003_01
```
@@ -92,10 +96,11 @@
- `-p <package_branch>` [OPTIONAL]: OSM packages repository branch. Default: master
- `-t <testing_tags>` [OPTIONAL]: Robot tests tags. [sanity, regression, particular_test]. Default: sanity
-
## How to run tests from a host
-### Installing
+In general, testing from docker images is the best way if you want to develop for OSM. However, sometimes it could be useful to run tests directly from the host.
+
+### Install dependencies
This bash script can be used to setup your environment to execute the tests.
@@ -111,12 +116,20 @@
### Configure the environment
-Create a file `envfile.rc` copying from `envconfig-local.rc` and set the required variables.
+Create a file `envconfig.rc` copying from `envconfig-local.rc` and set the required variables (in this case, the use of `export` is mandatory).
+
+```
+export OSM_HOSTNAME=<OSM_IP_ADDRESS>
+export VIM_TARGET=<VIM_REGISTERED_AT_OSM>
+export VIM_MGMT_NET=<NAME_OF_THE_MGMT_NETWORK_IN_THE_VIM>
+export OS_CLOUD=<OPENSTACK_CLOUD> # OpenStack Cloud defined in $HOME/.config/openstack/clouds.yaml or in /etc/openstack/clouds.yaml
+export K8S_CREDENTIALS= # path to the kubeconfig file of the K8s cluster to be tested
+```
### Running the tests
```bash
-source envfile.rc
+source envconfig.rc
mkdir reports
robot -d reports -i <testing_tags> testsuite/
```
@@ -241,5 +254,5 @@
## License
-This project is licensed under the Apache2 License - see the [LICENSE.md](LICENSE) file for details
+This project is licensed under the Apache2 License - see the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details