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Beaker is an acceptance testing harness for Puppet PE and other Puppet Projects. It can also be used as a virtual machine provisioner - setting up machines, running any configuration on those machines and then exiting.

Beaker goes through several phases when running tests

  • Provisioning
    • skip with --no-provision
    • Using supported hypervisors provision SUTs for testing on
    • Do any initial configuration to ensure that the SUTs can communicate with beaker and each other
  • Validation
    • skip with --no-validate
    • Check the SUTs for necessary packages (curl, ntpdate)
  • Configuration
    • skip with --no-configure
    • Do any post-provisioning configuration to the test nodes
  • Testing
    • Pre-Suite
    • use --pre-suite
    • Run any test files defined as part of the --pre-suite command line option
    • Tests
    • use --tests
    • Run any test files defined as part of the --tests command line option
    • Post-Suite
    • use --post-suite
    • Run any test files defined as part of the --post-suite command line option
  • Reverting
    • Skip with --preserve-hosts
    • Destroy and cleanup all SUTs
  • Cleanup
    • Report test results

Beaker runs tests written in Ruby with an additional DSL API. This gives you access to all standard Ruby along with acceptance testing specific commands.