A build and test script in Python
I’ve recently created a script in Python for continuous get-build-test.
It pulls the latest code from a Mercurial repository, builds a bunch of C++ projects, then runs pytest.
The script demonstrates a few simple, but tasty Python techniques including:
– parsing command line flags using optparse
– using subprocess to run shell commands from Python, and capturing the output as it runs
– archiving the build and test results to a log file
– scraping the last line of output of hg pull, py.test etc as a simple (albeit fragile) way to detect success / failure
I’ve set up a cron job to run this every hour. It only actually does anything if there is changed code from the hg pull.
The cron job is set up with crontab -e and the file looks like:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin
0 * * * * cd /vol/automatic_build_area && python pull_code_and_build_and_test.py
The path /usr/local/bin had to be added as py.test would not run without it (the path was discovered with the useful “which” command, as in “which py.test”). Furthermore, pytest seemed to need to be run with < /dev/null. (I have noticed that, despite its general awesomeness, pytest does have some strange quirks when it comes to general environment issues – the above for example, plus treatment of global variables).
Here is the script:
from optparse import OptionParser
import subprocess
importdatetime
brief_output = False
all_lines = []
def runProcess(cmd):
p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, shell=True)
while p.poll() is None:
if not p.stdout.closed:
data = p.communicate()[0]
if data is not None:
for line in data.split(“\n”):
yield line
def run_shell_cmd(cmd, force_brief_output = False):
if type(cmd) is str:
cmd = [cmd]
lines = [“Running: ” + ” “.join(cmd) + “\n”]
print “”.join(lines)
for line in runProcess(cmd):
if not brief_output and not force_brief_output:
print line.replace(“\n”, “”)
lines.append(line + “\n”)
while not lines[-1] or lines[-1] == “\n”: # pop off trailing empty lines
lines.pop()
if not force_brief_output:
all_lines.extend(lines)
return lines
def pull_build_and_test(build_only, test_only):
if build_only and not test_only:
print “Build only – not pulling or testing”
if not build_only and test_only:
print “Test only – not pulling or building”
if build_only and test_only:
print”Build and test only – not pulling”
if not build_only and not test_only:
pull_output = run_shell_cmd(“hg pull -u”)
if not build_only and not test_only and (not pull_output or pull_output[-1] == “no changes found\n”):
print “No changes to repo from hg pull”
else:
if not not build_only and test_only:
make_clean_output = run_shell_cmd(“make clean”)
make_output = run_shell_cmd(“make”)
if not make_output or make_output[-1] != “– Success –\n”:
print “Build failure!”
# send an email, for example: “Failure at ” + datetime.datetime.now().strftime(“%d %b %Y %H:%M”) \
+ ” – Build failure” with body “”.join(pull_output + [“\n\n”] + make_output))
return False
print “Build success! C++ engines all built”
if not build_only and not test_only:
pytest_output = run_shell_cmd(“py.test -v < /dev/null”)
if not pytest_output or not “======================” in pytest_output[-1] or not ” passed” in pytest_output[-1] \
or ” failed” in pytest_output[-1] or ” error” in pytest_output[-1]:
print “Pytest failure!”
# send an email, for example: “Failure at ” + datetime.datetime.now().strftime(“%d %b %Y %H:%M”) \
+ ” – Pytest failure” with body “”.join(pull_output + [“\n\n”] + pytest_output))
return False
print “Test success! All tests have passed”
returnTrue
if __name__ == “__main__”:
all_lines = [“\n\n\n—–**—- Automatic build and test ” + datetime.datetime.now().strftime(“%d %b %Y %H:%M”) + “\n\n” ]
parser = OptionParser()
parser.add_option(“-b”, “–build_only”, dest=”build_only”, action=”store_true”, default=False)
parser.add_option(“-t”, “–test_only”, dest=”test_only”, action=”store_true”, default=False)
parser.add_option(“-l”, “–less_output”, dest=”less_output”, action=”store_true”, default=False)
(options, args) = parser.parse_args()
brief_output = options.less_output
success = pull_build_and_test(options.build_only, options.test_only)
all_lines.append(“\n\n——————– Automatic build and test summary: success = ” + str(success) + \
” ——- Finished running ” + datetime.datetime.now().strftime(“%d %b %Y %H:%M”) + ” ————-\n\n”)
open(“automatic_build_and_test.log”, “a”).write(“”.join(all_lines)) # append results to the log file
Acknowledgments to this Stack Overflow solution for pointers on how to capture subprocess output as it’s running, although the above function is much more robust (doesn’t seem to fail from timing problems when there is multiline output etc).
Could you please help me to setup same thing where i am using the python selenium binding and doing some normal test