Writing Tests about go-ansible

[apenella]

Hi @rhugga
I use the following approach to test an application that uses go-ansible library. The main idea is testing how the library is called, and to achieve it, go-library can't called it directly.

To do that I wrapped the library in a facade which has a set of methods to configure the AnsiblePlaybookCmd object. I also created a mock for that wrapper, then I could inject either the wrapper or the mock to the object that executes the playbook. I use github.com/stretchr/testify/mock package to create mocks.

In the stevedore project, where I use go-ansible library, I am working on a huge refactor where I introduced the described testing strategy. Take a look at https://github.com/gostevedore/stevedore/tree/version_0.11.0/internal/infrastructure/driver/ansible to an example.

I hope that it could help you!

[apenella]

HI @rhugga
did it help you?