peertube/support/doc/development/tests.md

Tests

Preparation

Prepare PostgreSQL user so PeerTube can delete/create the test databases:

sudo -u postgres createuser you_username --createdb --superuser

Prepare databases:

npm run clean:server:test

Build PeerTube:

npm run build

Server tests

Dependencies

Run docker containers needed by some test files:

sudo docker run -p 9444:9000 chocobozzz/s3-ninja
sudo docker run -p 10389:10389 chocobozzz/docker-test-openldap

Ensure you also have these commands:

exiftool --help
parallel --help

Otherwise, install the packages. On Debian-based systems (like Debian, Ubuntu or Mint):

sudo apt-get install parallel libimage-exiftool-perl

Test

To run all test suites:

npm run test # See scripts/test.sh to run a particular suite

Most of tests can be run using:

TS_NODE_TRANSPILE_ONLY=true npm run mocha -- --timeout 30000 --exit -r ts-node/register -r tsconfig-paths/register --bail server/tests/api/videos/video-transcoder.ts

server/tests/api/activitypub tests will need different options:

TS_NODE_FILES=true mocha -- --timeout 30000 --exit -r ts-node/register -r tsconfig-paths/register --bail server/tests/api/activitypub/security.ts

Configuration

Some env variables can be defined to disable/enable some tests:

• DISABLE_HTTP_IMPORT_TESTS=true: disable import tests (because of youtube that could rate limit your IP)
• ENABLE_OBJECT_STORAGE_TESTS=true: enable object storage tests (needs chocobozzz/s3-ninja container first)
• AKISMET_KEY: specify an Akismet key to test akismet external PeerTube plugin
• OBJECT_STORAGE_SCALEWAY_KEY_ID and OBJECT_STORAGE_SCALEWAY_ACCESS_KEY: specify Scaleway API keys to test object storage ACL (not supported by our chocobozzz/s3-ninja container)
• ENABLE_FFMPEG_THUMBNAIL_PIXEL_COMPARISON_TESTS=true: enable pixel comparison on images generated by ffmpeg. Disabled by default because a custom ffmpeg version may fails the tests

Debug server logs

While testing, you might want to display a server's logs to understand why they failed:

NODE_APP_INSTANCE=1 NODE_ENV=test npm run parse-log -- --level debug | less +GF

You can also:

• checkout only the latest logs (PeerTube >= 5.0):

tail -n 100 test1/logs/peertube.log | npm run parse-log -- --level debug --files -

• continuously print the latests logs (PeerTube >= 5.0):

tail -f test1/logs/peertube.log | npm run parse-log -- --level debug --files -

Client E2E tests

Local tests

To run tests on local web browsers (comment web browsers you don't have in client/e2e/wdio.local.conf.ts):

PEERTUBE2_E2E_PASSWORD=password npm run e2e:local

Browserstack tests

To run tests on browser stack:

BROWSERSTACK_USER=your_user BROWSERSTACK_KEY=your_key npm run e2e:browserstack

Add E2E tests

To add E2E tests and quickly run tests using a local Chrome:

cd client/e2e
../node_modules/.bin/wdio wdio.local-test.conf.ts # you can also add --mochaOpts.grep to only run tests you want