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E2E Tests

The test directory contains E2E tests and test applications. The tests assume that Argo CD services are installed into argocd-e2e namespace or cluster in current context. A throw-away namespace argocd-e2e*** is created prior to the execution of the tests. The throw-away namespace is used as a target namespace for test applications.

The /test/e2e/testdata directory contains various Argo CD applications. Before test execution, the directory is copied into /tmp/argo-e2e*** temp directory (configurable by ARGOCD_E2E_DIR) and used in tests as a Git repository via file url: file:///tmp/argo-e2e***.

Note

You might get an error such as unable to ls-remote HEAD on repository: failed to list refs: repository not found when querying the local repository exposed through the e2e server running in a container. This is often caused by /tmp directoring sharing protection. You can configure a different directory with ARGOCD_E2E_DIR, or disable the directory sharing protection.

Rancher Desktop Volume Sharing

To do enable /tmp sharing, add the following to ~/Library/Application\ Support/rancher-desktop/lima/_config/override.yaml and restart Rancher Desktop:

mounts:
  - location: /private/tmp
    writable: true

Running Tests Locally

With virtualized chain

  1. Start the e2e version make start-e2e
  2. Run the tests: make test-e2e

With local chain

  1. Start the e2e version make start-e2e-local
  2. Run the tests: make test-e2e-local

Observing tests results

You can observe the tests by using the UI http://localhost:4000/applications with username "admin" and password "password".

Configuration of E2E Tests execution

The Makefile's start-e2e target starts instances of ArgoCD on your local machine, of which the most will require a network listener. If, for any reason, your machine already has network services listening on the same ports, then the e2e tests will not run. You can derive from the defaults by setting the following environment variables before you run make start-e2e:

  • ARGOCD_E2E_APISERVER_PORT: Listener port for argocd-server (default: 8080)
  • ARGOCD_E2E_REPOSERVER_PORT: Listener port for argocd-reposerver (default: 8081)
  • ARGOCD_E2E_DEX_PORT: Listener port for dex (default: 5556)
  • ARGOCD_E2E_REDIS_PORT: Listener port for redis (default: 6379)
  • ARGOCD_E2E_PNPM_CMD: Command to use for starting the UI via pnpm (default: pnpm)
  • ARGOCD_E2E_DIR: Local path to the repository to use for ephemeral test data

If you have changed the port for argocd-server, be sure to also set ARGOCD_SERVER environment variable to point to that port, e.g. export ARGOCD_SERVER=localhost:8888 before running make test-e2e so that the test will communicate to the correct server component.

Running a Shard of the Suite

CI splits the e2e suite into shards and runs each shard as its own job. You can run a single shard locally with make test-e2e or make test-e2e-local by setting both of these environment variables:

  • ARGOCD_E2E_SHARD: The shard to run, starting at 1
  • ARGOCD_E2E_SHARD_COUNT: The total number of shards

When either variable is unset, the whole suite runs. For example, to run the first of four shards:

ARGOCD_E2E_SHARD=1 ARGOCD_E2E_SHARD_COUNT=4 make test-e2e-local

hack/e2e-shard.sh assigns tests to shards by their measured duration, which it reads from test/e2e/shard-weights.txt. Tests missing from that file get the mean duration. When every e2e job of a CI run passes, hack/e2e-check-shard-coverage.sh checks that each test in test/e2e ran in one of the shards of the latest Kubernetes version. If a test did not run, the required E2E Tests - Composite result check fails. To read durations from a different file when you run make test-e2e-local, set ARGOCD_E2E_SHARD_WEIGHTS to its path.

Note

The e2e environment must be running before you run a shard, because listing the tests starts the test binary, and the test binary connects to the API server when it starts.

Refreshing the Shard Weights

The shards become unbalanced when tests are added or their durations change. Each CI shard of the latest Kubernetes version uploads its test timings as an e2e-test-timings-shard<N> artifact. To regenerate the weights from a green CI run:

gh run download <run-id> -p 'e2e-test-timings-shard*'
./hack/e2e-shard-weights.sh e2e-test-timings-shard*/junit.xml > test/e2e/shard-weights.txt

Test Isolation

Some effort has been made to balance test isolation with speed. Tests are isolated as follows as each test gets:

  • A random 5 character ID.
  • A unique Git repository containing the testdata in /tmp/argo-e2e/${id}.
  • A namespace argocd-e2e-ns-${id}.
  • A primary name for the app argocd-e2e-${id}.

Run only a subset of tests

Running all tests locally is a time-consuming process. To run only a subset of tests, you can set the TEST_MODULE environment variable. For example, to run only the OCI tests, you can set the variable as follows: make TEST_MODULE=./test/e2e/oci_test.go test-e2e-local

If you want to get a more fine-grained control over which tests to run, you can also try make TEST_FLAGS="-run <TEST_METHOD_NAME_REGEXP>" test-e2e-local For individual tests you can run them using the IDE run test feature

Troubleshooting

Tests fails to delete argocd-e2e-ns-* namespaces.

This maybe due to the metrics server, run this:

kubectl api-resources

If it exits with status code 1, run:

kubectl delete apiservice v1beta1.metrics.k8s.io

Remove /spec/finalizers from the namespace

kubectl edit ns argocd-e2e-ns-*