The cqlpy and alternator test frameworks use a single Scylla node started
once for all tests to run on. In the distant past, we had a problem where
if one test caused Scylla to crash, the result was a confusing report of
hundreds of failed tests - all tests after the crash "failed" and it wasn't
easy to find which test really caused the crash.
Our old solution to this problem was to have an autouse fixture (called
cql_test_connection or dynamodb_test_connection) which tested the
connection at the end of each test, and if it detected Scylla has
crashed - it used pytest.exit() to report the error and have pytest
exit and therefore stop running any further tests (which would have
led to all of them testing).
This approach had two problems:
1. The pytest.exit() caused the entire cqlpy suite to report a failure,
but but not the individual test - the individual test might have
failed as well, but that isn't guaranteed and in any case this test's
output is missing the informative message that Scylla crashed during
the test. This was fine when for each cqlpy failure we had two separate
error logs in Jenkins - the specific failed function, and the failed
file - but when we recently got rid of the suplication by removing the
second one, we no longer see the "Scylla crashed" messages any more.
2. Exiting pytest will be the wrong thing to do if the same pytest
run could run tests from different test suites. We don't do this
today, but we plan to support this approach soon.
This patch fixes both problems by replacing the pytest.exit() call by
setting a "scylla_crashed" flag and using pytest.fail(). The pytest.fail()
causes the current test - the one which caused Scylla to crash - to be
reported as an "ERROR" and the "Scylla crashed" message will correctly
appear in this test's log. The flag will cause all other tests in the
same test suite to be skip()ed. But other tests in other directories,
depending on different fixtures, might continue to run normally.
Fixes#23287
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
Closesscylladb/scylladb#23307
Both test.py and test/cqlpy/run run many test functions against the same
Scylla process. In the resulting log file, it is hard to understand which
log messages are related to which test. In this patch, we log a message
(using the "/system/log" REST API) every time a test is started or ends.
The messages look like this:
INFO 2025-04-22 15:10:44,625 [shard 1:strm] api - /system/log:
test/cqlpy: Starting test_lwt.py::test_lwt_missing_row_with_static
...
INFO 2025-04-22 15:10:44,631 [shard 0:strm] api - /system/log:
test/cqlpy: Ended test_lwt.py::test_lwt_missing_row_with_static
We already had a similar feature in test/alternator, added three years
ago in commit b0371b6bf8. The implementation
is similar but not identical due to different available utility functions,
and in any case it's very simple.
While at it, this patch also fixes the has_rest_api() to timeout after
one second. Without this, if the REST API is blocked in a way that
a connection attempt just hangs, the tests can hang. With the new
timeout, the test will hang for a second, realize the REST API is
not available, and remember this decision (the next tests will not
wait one second again). We had the same bug in Alternator, and fixed
it in 758f8f01d7. This one second "pause"
will only happen if the REST API port is blocked - in the more typical
case the REST API port is just not listening but not blocked, and the
failure will be noticed immediately and won't wait a whole second.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
Closesscylladb/scylladb#23857
Extended existing Scylla Tools tests to cover the new functionality of
reading SSTables from S3. This ensures that the new S3 integration is
thoroughly tested and performs as expected.
Developers are expected to run new cqlpy tests against Cassandra - to
verify that the new test itself is correct. Usually there is no need
to run the entire cqlpy test suite against Cassandra, but when users do
this, it isn't confidence-inspiring to see hundreds of tests failing.
In this patch I fix many but not all of these failures.
Refs #11690 (which will remain open until we fix all the failures on
Cassandra)
* Fixed the "compact_storage" fixture recently introduced to enable the
deprecated feature in Scylla for the tests. This fixture was broken on
Cassandra and caused all compact-storage related tests to fail
on Cassandra.
* Marked all tests in test_tombstone_limit.py as scylla_only - as they
check the Scylla-only query_tombstone_page_limit configuration option.
* Marked all tests in test_service_level_api.py as scylla_only - as they
check the Scylla-only service levels feature.
* Marked a test specific to the Scylla-only IncrementalCompactionStrategy
as scylla_only. Some tests mix STCS and ICS testing in one test - this
is a mistake and isn't fixed in this patch.
* Various tests in test_tablets.py forgot to use skip_without_tablets
to skip them on Cassandra or older Scylla that doesn't have the
tablets feature.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
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Closesscylladb/scylladb#22561
Python and Python developers don't like directory names to include a
minus sign, like "cql-pytest". In this patch we rename test/cql-pytest
to test/cqlpy, and also change a few references in other code (e.g., code
that used test/cql-pytest/run.py) and also references to this test suite
in documentation and comments.
Arguably, the word "test" was always redundant in test/cql-pytest, and
I want to leave the "py" in test/cqlpy to emphasize that it's Python-based
tests, contrasting with test/cql which are CQL-request-only approval
tests.
Fixes#20846
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
