Fix tests doc

[github/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.git] / support / doc / development / tests.md

diff --git a/support/doc/development/tests.md b/support/doc/development/tests.md
index e311d326793e8e8f1bc6411de26d2534d11cc0d6..d36cf8544f012ec67b4e10dcdaa49310f3cd51ff 100644 (file)
--- a/support/doc/development/tests.md
+++ b/support/doc/development/tests.md
@@ -4,19 +4,19 @@
 
 Prepare PostgreSQL user so PeerTube can delete/create the test databases:
 
-```
+```bash
 $ sudo -u postgres createuser you_username --createdb --superuser
 ```
 
 Prepare databases:
 
-```
+```bash
 $ npm run clean:server:test
 ```
 
 Build PeerTube:
 
-```
+```bash
 $ npm run build
 ```
 
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ $ npm run build
 
 Run docker containers needed by some test files:
 
-```
+```bash
 $ sudo docker run -p 9444:9000 chocobozzz/s3-ninja
 $ sudo docker run -p 10389:10389 chocobozzz/docker-test-openldap
 ```
@@ -35,22 +35,37 @@ $ sudo docker run -p 10389:10389 chocobozzz/docker-test-openldap
 
 To run all test suites:
 
-```
+```bash
 $ npm run test # See scripts/test.sh to run a particular suite
 ```
 
-To run a particular test file:
+Most of tests can be runned using:
 
+```bash
+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
 ```
-TS_NODE_TRANSPILE_ONLY=true 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`: disable import tests (because of youtube that could rate limit your IP)
- * `ENABLE_OBJECT_STORAGE_TESTS=true`: enable object storage tests (needs a docker container first)
+ * `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)
+
+
+### Debug server logs
+
+While testing, you might want to display a server's logs to understand why they failed:
+
+```bash
+NODE_APP_INSTANCE=1 NODE_ENV=test npm run parse-log -- --level debug | less +GF
+```
 
 
 ## Client E2E tests
@@ -59,7 +74,7 @@ Some env variables can be defined to disable/enable some tests:
 
 To run tests on local web browsers (comment web browsers you don't have in `client/e2e/wdio.local.conf.ts`):
 
-```
+```bash
 $ npm run e2e:local
 ```
 
@@ -67,6 +82,21 @@ $ npm run e2e:local
 
 To run tests on browser stack:
 
-```
+```bash
 $ 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, first create a test instance:
+
+```bash
+$ npm run clean:server:test && NODE_APP_INSTANCE=1 NODE_ENV=test npm start
+```
+
+Then, just run your suite using:
+
+```bash
+$ cd client/e2e
+$ ../node_modules/.bin/wdio wdio.local-test.conf.ts # you can also add --mochaOpts.grep to only run tests you want
+```