About

Linter verified software

Dockerized test environment for XML and REST validation

The test environment is based on Alpine and Nginx images in Docker containers. It is created fairly easily using
docker-compose.

Test automation framework:
Robot Framework

1. Dependency test libraries/modules are installed during the setup and
   execution phase.
2. Currently included testing: XML and REST reply verifications.
3. Does not utilize SeleniumLibrary or browsers.

Versions used in development/testing

$ docker-machine version
docker-machine version 0.16.1, build cce350d

$ docker-compose version
docker-compose version 1.24.1, build unknown
docker-py version: 3.7.3
CPython version: 3.7.4
OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.0.2s  28 May 2019

$ docker version
Client: Docker Engine - Community
 Version:           18.09.7
 API version:       1.39
 Go version:        go1.12.6
 Git commit:        2d0083d
 Built:             Thu Jun 27 22:52:31 2019
 OS/Arch:           darwin/amd64
 Experimental:      false

Server: Docker Engine - Community
 Engine:
  Version:          18.09.2
  API version:      1.39 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version:       go1.10.6
  Git commit:       6247962
  Built:            Sun Feb 10 04:13:06 2019
  OS/Arch:          linux/amd64
  Experimental:     false

Commands to get the environment up and working

Create a new test environment utilizing Virtualbox and name it as 'testing':

docker-machine create -d virtualbox testing

Take the created environment into use:

eval $(docker-machine env testing)

Start the separate HTTP application:

docker-compose up -d web

Test execution

docker-compose run 'parameter'

1. XML verification: xml-validation
2. REST verification: rest-validation
3. separate environment for other dev/testing activities: validate-env

Notice:

1. The REST verification test is using the following service: http://echo.jsontest.com
2. Recognizing failing situations haven't been implemented properly.

Shut down the test environment

docker-compose down

Remove the test environment/cleanup

docker-machine rm -f testing