Issue Tracking

The HILSTER Testing Framework seamlessly integrates issue tracking systems.

JIRA (Atlassian)

The integration of JIRA issues can easily be realized using htf.JIRAConnector.

In JIRA the option 'Allow Remote API Calls' must be enabled.

The htf.JIRAConnector searches JIRA using the rest api to find issues for the current test. Found issues are appended to the test and put into the test report.

This way you do not need to put your issues into the source code of your tests.

By default issues must include testcase.test in the summary or the description, eg. MyTestCase.test_foo. This behaviour can be changed by changing the query_template accordingly.

To use the htf.JIRAConnector add it as a base class for you testcase. This will provide the method htf.JIRAConnector.setup_jira_connector() which must be called from the __init__ method of your testcase and supplies needed information about the JIRA-Url and authentication credentials.

By default htf.JIRAConnector creates links that include the type, id and status of the referenced issue, e.g. Bug TRANS-1266 (Resolved): Dutch language does not reflect on keyboard shortcut dialog box.

The default template for link_template is "{fields/issuetype/name} {key} ({fields/status/name}): {fields/summary}". The '/' in the template describe the hierarchy in the api result. The api result is flattend and is used to format the template using the string.format() method.

To be able to see all possible keys you should enable debugging to have a look at the flattend dictionary.

For oauth and kerberos authentication have a look at the python-jira documentation.

Example:

import htf

class MyTestCase(htf.TestCase, htf.JIRAConnector):
    def __init__(self, methodName="runTest"):
        super(Test, self).__init__(methodName=methodName)
        self.setup_jira_connector(
            url="https://jira.atlassian.com",
            project="11460"
        )

class Tests(MyTestCase):
    def test_foo(self):
        pass

To enable debugging use the following code snippet.

import logging
logging.basicConfig()
logger = logging.getLogger("htf.jira")
logger.setLevel(level=logging.INFO)  # to enable info
logger.setLevel(level=logging.DEBUG)  # to enable info and debug

class htf.JIRAConnector(*args, **kwargs)

The htf.JIRAConnector searches JIRA using the rest api to find issues for the current test. Found issues are append to the test and put into the test report.

setup_jira_connector(url, project, username=None, password=None, auth=None, oauth_dict=None, kerberos_options=None, query_template=None, title_template=None)

Set up the JIRAConnector so that it will search you JIRA installation for issues for the current test.

Parameters:

• url (str) – the url to you JIRA installation
• project (str) – the JIRA project
• username=None (str or None) – the username to be used for authentication
• password=None (str or None) – the password to be used for authentication
• auth=None (str or None) –

  possible values are:

  • None: no authentication is used
  • auth: cookie based authentication
  • basic_auth: HTTP basic authentication
  • oauth: OAuth authentication is used (you have to supply oauth_dict, too)
  • kerberos: Kerberos authentication (you have to supply kerberos_options, too)
• oauth_dict=None (dict) – options for oauth authentication
• kerberos_options=None (dict) – options for kerberos authentication
• query_template="default" (str) –

  the template for the JIRA query string. supported replacements are - {testcase}: is replaced with the TestCase’s class name - {test}: is replaced with the current test name - {project}: is replaced with the supplied project

  default: “project={project} and (summary~”{testcase}.{test}” or description~”{testcase}.{test}”)”

• title_template="default" (str) – The template for the resulting title of the link in the test report. The issue is flattend using '/' as the separator. So the template may include keys like {fields/status/name} to show the name of the current ticket status, etc.