Plugin Test
Plugin tests are required and should pass before a new plugin is able to merge into the master branch.
Specify a support matrix in each plugin in the skywalking/plugins
folder, along with their website links,
the matrix and links will be used for plugin support table documentation generation for this doc Plugins.md.
Use make doc-gen
to generate a table and paste into Plugins.md
after all test passes.
SkyWalking Agent Test Tool (Mock Collector)
SkyWalking Agent Test Tool respects the same protocol as the SkyWalking backend, and thus receives the report data from the agent side, besides, it also exposes some HTTP endpoints for verification.
Tested Service
A tested service is a service involving the plugin that is to be tested, and exposes some endpoints to trigger the instrumented code and report log/trace/meter data to the mock collector.
Docker Compose
docker-compose
is used to orchestrate the mock collector and the tested service(s), the docker-compose.yml
should be
able to run with docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up
in standalone mode, which can be used in debugging too.
Expected Data
The expected.data.yml
file contains the expected segment/log/meter data after we have triggered the instrumentation
and report to mock collector.
Once the mock collector receives data, we post the expected data to the mock collector and verify whether they match.
This can be done through the /dataValidate
of the mock collector, say http://collector:12800/dataValidate
, for example.
Example
If we want to test the plugin for the built-in library http
, we will:
- Build a tested service, which sets up an HTTP server by
http
library, and exposes an HTTP endpoint to be triggered in the test codes, say/trigger
, take this provider service as example. - Compose a
docker-compose.yml
file, orchestrating the service built in step 1 and the mock collector, take this docker-compose.yml as an example. - Write test codes to trigger the endpoint in step 1, and send the expected data file to the mock collector to verify, take this test as example.