1The extended testsuite only works with UID=0. It consists of the subdirectories
2named "test/TEST-??-*", each of which contains a description of an OS image and
3a test which consists of systemd units and scripts to execute in this image.
4The same image is used for execution under `systemd-nspawn` and `qemu`.
5
6To run the extended testsuite do the following:
7
8$ ninja -C build # Avoid building anything as root later
9$ sudo test/run-integration-tests.sh
10ninja: Entering directory `/home/zbyszek/src/systemd/build'
11ninja: no work to do.
12--x-- Running TEST-01-BASIC --x--
13+ make -C TEST-01-BASIC clean setup run
14make: Entering directory '/home/zbyszek/src/systemd/test/TEST-01-BASIC'
15TEST-01-BASIC CLEANUP: Basic systemd setup
16TEST-01-BASIC SETUP: Basic systemd setup
17...
18TEST-01-BASIC RUN: Basic systemd setup [OK]
19make: Leaving directory '/home/zbyszek/src/systemd/test/TEST-01-BASIC'
20--x-- Result of TEST-01-BASIC: 0 --x--
21--x-- Running TEST-02-CRYPTSETUP --x--
22+ make -C TEST-02-CRYPTSETUP clean setup run
23
24If one of the tests fails, then $subdir/test.log contains the log file of
25the test.
26
27To run just one of the cases:
28
29$ sudo make -C test/TEST-01-BASIC clean setup run
30
31Specifying the build directory
32==============================
33
34If the build directory is not detected automatically, it can be specified
35with BUILD_DIR=:
36
37$ sudo BUILD_DIR=some-other-build/ test/run-integration-tests
38
39or
40
41$ sudo make -C test/TEST-01-BASIC BUILD_DIR=../../some-other-build/ ...
42
43Note that in the second case, the path is relative to the test case directory.
44An absolute path may also be used in both cases.
45
46Testing installed binaries instead of built
47===========================================
48
49To run the extended testsuite using the systemd installed on the system instead
50of the systemd from a build, use the NO_BUILD=1:
51
52$ sudo NO_BUILD=1 test/run-integration-tests
53
54Configuration variables
55=======================
56
57TEST_NO_QEMU=1
58 Don't run tests under qemu
59
60TEST_QEMU_ONLY=1
61 Run only tests that require qemu
62
63TEST_NO_NSPAWN=1
64 Don't run tests under systemd-nspawn
65
66TEST_PREFER_NSPAWN=1
67 Run all tests that do not require qemu under systemd-nspawn
68
69TEST_NO_KVM=1
70 Disable qemu KVM auto-detection (may be necessary when you're trying to run the
71 *vanilla* qemu and have both qemu and qemu-kvm installed)
72
73TEST_NESTED_KVM=1
74 Allow tests to run with nested KVM. By default, the testsuite disables
75 nested KVM if the host machine already runs under KVM. Setting this
76 variable disables such checks
77
78QEMU_MEM=512M
79 Configure amount of memory for qemu VMs (defaults to 512M)
80
81QEMU_SMP=1
82 Configure number of CPUs for qemu VMs (defaults to 1)
83
84KERNEL_APPEND='...'
85 Append additional parameters to the kernel command line
86
87NSPAWN_ARGUMENTS='...'
88 Specify additional arguments for systemd-nspawn
89
90QEMU_TIMEOUT=infinity
91 Set a timeout for tests under qemu (defaults to infinity)
92
93NSPAWN_TIMEOUT=infinity
94 Set a timeout for tests under systemd-nspawn (defaults to infinity)
95
96INTERACTIVE_DEBUG=1
97 Configure the machine to be more *user-friendly* for interactive debuggung
98 (e.g. by setting a usable default terminal, suppressing the shutdown after
99 the test, etc.)
100
101The kernel and initramfs can be specified with $KERNEL_BIN and $INITRD.
102(Fedora's or Debian's default kernel path and initramfs are used by default)
103
104A script will try to find your qemu binary. If you want to specify a different
105one with $QEMU_BIN.
106
107Debugging the qemu image
108========================
109
110If you want to log in the testsuite virtual machine, you can specify additional
111kernel command line parameter with $KERNEL_APPEND and then log in as root.
112
113$ sudo make -C test/TEST-01-BASIC KERNEL_APPEND="systemd.unit=multi-user.target" run
114
115Root password is empty.
116
117Ubuntu CI
118=========
119
120New PR submitted to the project are run through regression tests, and one set
121of those is the 'autopkgtest' runs for several different architectures, called
122'Ubuntu CI'. Part of that testing is to run all these tests. Sometimes these
123tests are temporarily deny-listed from running in the 'autopkgtest' tests while
124debugging a flaky test; that is done by creating a file in the test directory
125named 'deny-list-ubuntu-ci', for example to prevent the TEST-01-BASIC test from
126running in the 'autopkgtest' runs, create the file
127'TEST-01-BASIC/deny-list-ubuntu-ci'.
128
129The tests may be disabled only for specific archs, by creating a deny-list file
130with the arch name at the end, e.g.
131'TEST-01-BASIC/deny-list-ubuntu-ci-arm64' to disable the TEST-01-BASIC test
132only on test runs for the 'arm64' architecture.
133
134Note the arch naming is not from 'uname -m', it is Debian arch names:
135https://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo
136
137For PRs that fix a currently deny-listed test, the PR should include removal
138of the deny-list file.
139
140In case a test fails, the full set of artifacts, including the journal of the
141failed run, can be downloaded from the artifacts.tar.gz archive which will be
142reachable in the same URL parent directory as the logs.gz that gets linked on
143the Github CI status.
144
145To add new dependencies or new binaries to the packages used during the tests,
146a merge request can be sent to: https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd
147targeting the 'upstream-ci' branch.
148
149The cloud-side infrastructure, that is hooked into the Github interface, is
150located at:
151
152https://git.launchpad.net/autopkgtest-cloud/
153
154In case of infrastructure issues with this CI, things might go wrong in two
155places:
156
157- starting a job: this is done via a Github webhook, so check if the HTTP POST
158 are failing on https://github.com/systemd/systemd/settings/hooks
159- running a job: all currently running jobs are listed at
160 https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/running#pkg-systemd-upstream in case the PR
161 does not show the status for some reason
162- reporting the job result: this is done on Canonical's cloud infrastructure,
163 if jobs are started and running but no status is visible on the PR, then it is
164 likely that reporting back is not working
165
166For infrastructure help, reaching out to Canonical via the #ubuntu-devel channel
167on libera.chat is an effective way to receive support in general.
168
169Manually running a part of the Ubuntu CI test suite
170===================================================
171
172In some situations one may want/need to run one of the tests run by Ubuntu CI
173locally for debugging purposes. For this, you need a machine (or a VM) with
174the same Ubuntu release as is used by Ubuntu CI (Focal ATTOW).
175
176First of all, clone the Debian systemd repository and sync it with the code of
177the PR (set by the $UPSTREAM_PULL_REQUEST env variable) you'd like to debug:
178
179# git clone https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd.git
180# cd systemd
181# git checkout upstream-ci
182# TEST_UPSTREAM=1 UPSTREAM_PULL_REQUEST=12345 ./debian/extra/checkout-upstream
183
184Now install necessary build & test dependencies:
185
186## PPA with some newer Ubuntu packages required by upstream systemd
187# add-apt-repository -y ppa:upstream-systemd-ci/systemd-ci
188# apt build-dep -y systemd
189# apt install -y autopkgtest debhelper genisoimage git qemu-system-x86 \
190 libzstd-dev libfdisk-dev libtss2-dev libfido2-dev libssl-dev \
191 python3-jinja2 zstd
192
193Build systemd deb packages with debug info:
194
195# DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="nocheck nostrip" dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
196# cd ..
197
198Prepare a testbed image for autopkgtest (tweak the release as necessary):
199
200# autopkgtest-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud -v -a amd64 -r focal
201
202And finally run the autopkgtest itself:
203
204# autopkgtest -o logs *.deb systemd/ \
205 --timeout-factor=3 \
206 --test-name=boot-and-services \
207 --shell-fail \
208 -- autopkgtest-virt-qemu autopkgtest-focal-amd64.img
209
210where --test-name= is the name of the test you want to run/debug. The
211--shell-fail option will pause the execution in case the test fails and shows
212you the information how to connect to the testbed for further debugging.
213
214Manually running LGTM/CodeQL analysis
215=====================================
216
217This is mostly useful for debugging various CodeQL/LGTM quirks.
218
219Download the CodeQL Bundle from https://github.com/github/codeql-action/releases
220and unpack it somewhere. From now the 'tutorial' assumes you have the `codeql`
221binary from the unpacked archive in $PATH for brevity.
222
223Switch to the systemd repository if not already:
224
225$ cd <systemd-repo>
226
227Create an initial CodeQL database:
228
229$ CCACHE_DISABLE=1 codeql database create codeqldb --language=cpp -vvv
230
231Disabling ccache is important, otherwise you might see CodeQL complaining:
232
233No source code was seen and extracted to /home/mrc0mmand/repos/@ci-incubator/systemd/codeqldb.
234This can occur if the specified build commands failed to compile or process any code.
235 - Confirm that there is some source code for the specified language in the project.
236 - For codebases written in Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python, do not specify
237 an explicit --command.
238 - For other languages, the --command must specify a "clean" build which compiles
239 all the source code files without reusing existing build artefacts.
240
241If you want to run all queries systemd uses in LGTM/CodeQL, run:
242
243$ codeql database analyze codeqldb/ --format csv --output results.csv .github/codeql-custom.qls .lgtm/cpp-queries/*.ql -vvv
244
245Note: this will take a while.
246
247If you're interested in a specific check, the easiest way (without hunting down
248the specific CodeQL query file) is to create a custom query suite. For example:
249
250$ cat >test.qls <<EOF
251- queries: .
252 from: codeql/cpp-queries
253- include:
254 id:
255 - cpp/missing-return
256EOF
257
258And then execute it in the same way as above:
259
260$ codeql database analyze codeqldb/ --format csv --output results.csv test.qls -vvv
261
262More about query suites here: https://codeql.github.com/docs/codeql-cli/creating-codeql-query-suites/
263
264The results are then located in the `results.csv` file as a comma separated
265values list (obviously), which is the most human-friendly output format the
266CodeQL utility provides (so far).
267