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Another question, this time about testing: I'm currently running tests via GitLab CI and I have to p

UQ958DA4U
UQ958DA4U Posts: 232 🧑🏻‍🚀 - Cadet
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Another question, this time about testing: I'm currently running tests via GitLab CI and I have to pretty much assemble an entire stage in there. It's possible but not terrific. Is there a better / smaller way to setup a testing environment with maybe just the application and a database?

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  • Unknown
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    Never tried this myself before, but one way to streamline could be by having a basic “pre installed” set of images, already with data and so on, and use it, running only the transfer generation and db migration logic.

    But again, I never tried this before.

  • UQ958DA4U
    UQ958DA4U Posts: 232 🧑🏻‍🚀 - Cadet
    edited May 2020

    Thought about that too as an interims solution but keeping those images fresh would require an overhead that would mute the benefits of this approach I fear.

    It would be cool to support stuff like SQLite as with the session store as files and maybe a faked(?) elasticsearch so you don't have to provide those real services just to run some tests. Excluding E2E tests, of course.

  • UQ958DA4U
    UQ958DA4U Posts: 232 🧑🏻‍🚀 - Cadet

    Being honest though: Setting this up in GitLab is super trivial once you've figured all the variables out, doing all of this including all tests is 5 - 10mins including running linters, so it's ok. Less is always good but it's acceptable... I guess.

  • s.kroll
    s.kroll Posts: 118 🪐 - Explorer

    Do you have an exmaple .gitlab-ci.yml for your current approach @UQ958DA4U ? I’m “messing” around with gitlab either and still failing with codeception tests so far. I’m not sure if I do the build/run itself right

  • UQ958DA4U
    UQ958DA4U Posts: 232 🧑🏻‍🚀 - Cadet

    @UM0EZB9GT Is this still relevant? If so, I'll ask for permission to post a code snippet here.

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