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Daniel Hilst b9b66aab14 test(xcat-core): capture makedns rewriting its own TSIG key algorithm
On a management node with Net::DNS below 1.36, makedns rewrites the named.conf
key stanza to hmac-md5. It then signs the update with the algorithm the site
table selects. named matches a TSIG key by name and by algorithm, so it rejects
every update and makedns exits 1.

ddns_named_key_algorithm.t drives update_namedconf over a scratch named.conf and
then signs one update with the context that run produced. It asserts that the
stanza keeps the algorithm the key was generated with, that the signature uses
that algorithm, and that named is not restarted. Two of its five subtests fail
before the fix.

ddns_omapi_policy.t pinned the rewrite as correct, so its expectations move to
the algorithm the key already has.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-15 20:43:58 -03:00
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xCAT-test/unit

Unit tests. These run against the source tree only -- no xCAT installation, no running daemons, no management node.

They are executed on every pull request by the xcat_test GitHub Actions workflow, which calls run_unit_tests() in github_action_xcat_test.pl:

prove -r xCAT-test/unit

You can run exactly the same thing from a clean checkout:

cd <xcat-core checkout>
prove -r xCAT-test/unit

What belongs here

A test belongs in unit/ when everything it needs is in the checkout: plugin and library sources, kickstart/preseed/subiquity templates, postscripts, packaging metadata. Such a test asserts on rendered output or module logic and reaches the repository root through FindBin:

use FindBin;
use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../../perl-xCAT";
use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../../xCAT-server/lib/perl";

Because of those FindBin paths the tests only work from a source tree. The copy installed under /opt/xcat/share/xcat/tools/autotest/unit is not a substitute -- ../.. resolves to /opt/xcat/share/xcat/tools there and the tests die or silently skip. The CI takes a copy of the checkout before the build for this reason; see preserve_source_tree().

What does not belong here

Anything that needs an installed xCAT, a populated /install, a real service binary or a live daemon. Those go in ../integration and run on a management node through xcattest. Both suites run on every pull request -- the workflow installs xCAT on the runner and then runs the ci_test cases against it -- so putting a test in integration/ does not cost it CI coverage. What differs is what each suite is allowed to depend on, and that unit tests also run standalone from a bare checkout with no xCAT at all.

Shell-script unit tests belong in ../bats and run with BATS. Do not add Perl .t tests that grep shell source when the behavior can be exercised by sourcing a shell library or script and shadowing the external commands it calls.

The distinction matters because a test that needs an absent environment does not fail -- it calls plan skip_all and reports as skipped. A handful of those in a suite of several hundred assertions is easy to stop reading. Keeping the two kinds in separate directories means a skip in unit/ is a real signal rather than routine noise.

Guarding on a source file, on the other hand, is fine and common here:

plan skip_all => "compute.subiquity.tmpl not found" unless -f $tmpl_path;

That guard never fires when the tree is intact.