Last modified: 2014-06-12 17:38:05 UTC
When installing wikimetrics through vagrant, nosetests and codecoverage are not installed per default. So one cannot run the nosetests due to missing dependencies. Can we install nosetests/codecoverage in vagrant's wikimetrics role?
I believe vagrant roles do not setup testing infrastructure for roles via puppet. You are expected to pip install nose. At least that is the case in the roles I have installed. I am not sure this is a bug.
(In reply to nuria from comment #1) > You are expected to pip install nose. Then the bug is that this necessary step is not documented anywhere :-)
(In reply to christian from comment #2) > Then the bug is that this necessary step is not documented anywhere :-) Rubbish, Christian! No need to change the documentation, when we can fix the install procedure and install nosetests, and codecoverage. Thereby making wikimetrics development easier. (As I've been told that Andrew opposed, I asked him via email, and it turned out that he does not oppose installing nosetests and codecoverage to vagrant's wikimetrics role.) So let's have nosetests and codecoverage installed in vagrant's wikimetrics role. \o/
Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Mingle card https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/analytics/cards/cards/1494
Just to keep track of what was said in private emails, one suggestion was to turn the current $debug into something more generic: $environment = ‘development’, … if $environment == ‘development’ { $debug = true exec { ‘install_wikimetrics_test_dependencies’: … } } else { $debug = false }
This would cleanly replace code we have like the following: if (debug) # change some config setting X to Y With: if (development) # load development config, it already has X=Y
