Unit and Integration tests for AVS Device SDK


This page describes how to run unit and integration tests with the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) Device SDK.

Run unit tests

Unit tests for the AVS Device SDK use the Google Test framework. Use this command to run all unit tests:

make all test

Make sure that all tests pass before you begin integration testing.

Run integration tests

Integration tests make sure that your build can make a request and receive a response from AVS.

  • All requests to AVS require auth credentials
  • The integration tests for Alerts require your system to be in UTC

Important: Integration tests reference an AlexaClientSDKConfig.json file, which you must create. See the Create the AlexaClientSDKConfig.json file section (above), if you have not already done this.

To run the integration tests use this command:

make all integration

Network integration test

If your project is built on a GNU/Linux-based platform (Ubuntu, Debian, etc.), there is an optional integration test that tests the ACL for use on slow networks.

This cmake option is required when you build the SDK:

cmake <absolute-path-to-source> -DNETWORK_INTEGRATION_TESTS=ON -DNETWORK_INTERFACE=eth0

Note: The name of the network interface can be located with this command ifconfig -a. IMPORTANT: This test requires root permissions.

Issue reporting guide

Occasionally, you may encounter issues related to unit and integration tests provided with the SDK. To understand your issue and to pinpoint where the failure has occurred, please follow these instructions:

Integration tests

If you encounter issues with unit and integration tests, follow these instructions.

Integration tests rely on your platform's internet connection and the AVS availability. failures you might see during integration tests might be intermittent. The general approach for integration tests should be to isolate the test bench (rf Step 1 below) and repeat the test bench using the --gtest_repeat=n flag with at least 10 tries. If the failure is persistent, you can also filter the test (rf Step 3 below) and repeat with at least 10 tries. The main difference between the unit and integration tests is that integration tests are not included in the CTest command. Therefore, you should pass the correct parameters to the executable to run a single test bench. There are seven integration tests, the following commands are used to run these tests:

  • ./Integration/test/AlexaAuthorizationDelegateTest /path/to/sdk/config/AlexaClientSDKConfig.json
  • ./Integration/test/AlexaCommunicationsLibraryTest /path/to/sdk/config/AlexaClientSDKConfig.json /path/to/sdk/source/Integration/inputs
  • ./Integration/test/AlexaDirectiveSequencerLibraryTest /path/to/sdk/config/AlexaClientSDKConfig.json /path/to/sdk/source/Integration/inputs
  • ./Integration/test/AudioInputProcessorIntegrationTest /path/to/sdk/config/AlexaClientSDKConfig.json /path/to/sdk/source/Integration/inputs
  • ./Integration/test/SpeechSynthesizerIntegrationTest /path/to/sdk/config/AlexaClientSDKConfig.json /path/to/sdk/source/Integration/inputs
  • ./Integration/test/AlertsIntegrationTest /path/to/sdk/config/AlexaClientSDKConfig.json /path/to/sdk/source/Integration/inputs
  • ./Integration/test/AudioPlayerIntegrationTest /path/to/sdk/config/AlexaClientSDKConfig.json /path/to/sdk/source/Integration/inputs

After you have used --gtest_filter, you can include that output to the issue report.

Unit tests

How to find which test is responsible

Using the build instructions, you may encounter failures during the make test step. Here we summarize what to do and how to re-run just the test that had failed:

  1. Find the test bench and the individual tests that failed: When a test fails, CTest or GoogleTest will print the name of the test that has failed at the end of the test run, e.g. make test will print something like this if there's a failed test:
     The following tests FAILED:
             364 - MediaPlayerTest_test (Failed)
             365 - MediaPlayerTest.testStartPlayWaitForEnd (Failed)
             366 - MediaPlayerTest.testStartPlayForUrl (Failed)
    

    In this example, we see that the main test bench that caused the test failure is MediaPlayerTest since that's the one that ends with _test and each individual test printed below it is prefixed by MediaPlayerTest.. Also, the two failed tests are MediaPlayerTest.testStartPlayWaitForEnd and MediaPlayerTest.testStartPlayForUrl.

  2. Run the test bench: The tests rely on your platform's internet connection and the server's availability. Therefore, the failures you might see during these tests might be intermittent. Therefore, running the test bench on its own before reporting it will show the nature of the failure. Continuing with the same example, let's run MediaPlayerTest, located in MediaPlayer/test/ (you can find any failed test in the build tree by find . -name <test_name_here>, e.g. find . -name MediaPlayerTest). In this case, if you run:
     ctest -R "^MediaPlayerTest_test$" -V
    

    It prints a different output, which is followed by a block that lists the failed tests again, e.g.:

     [==========] 16 tests from 1 test case ran. (***** ms total)
     [  PASSED  ] 14 tests.
     [  FAILED  ] 2 tests, listed below:
     [  FAILED  ] MediaPlayerTest.testStartPlayWaitForEnd
     [  FAILED  ] MediaPlayerTest.testStartPlayForUrl
    

    In this example, we see that the same two tests have failed again.

  3. Run only the failed tests and report: Now that it's clear which tests failed, you can run this test:
     ctest -R "^MediaPlayerTest.testStartPlayWaitForEnd$|^MediaPlayerTest.testStartPlayForUrl$" -V
    

    Here, notice that the tests are separated by |. Now the output is much smaller, and contains all the info needed for the run:

     Note: Google Test filter = MediaPlayerTest.testStartPlayWaitForEnd:MediaPlayerTest.testStartPlayForUrl
     [==========] Running 2 tests from 1 test case.
     [----------] Global test environment set-up.
     [----------] 2 tests from MediaPlayerTest
     [ RUN      ] MediaPlayerTest.testStartPlayWaitForEnd
     2017-08-07 15:58:59.187 [  1] E MediaPlayer:setupPipelineFailed:reason=createConverterElementFailed
     2017-08-07 15:58:59.187 [  1] E MediaPlayer:handleSetAttachmentReaderSourceFailed:reason=setupPipelineFailed
     /path/to/SDK/source/MediaPlayer/test/MediaPlayerTest.cpp:398: Failure
     Expected: (MediaPlayerStatus::FAILURE) != (m_mediaPlayer->setSource( std::unique_ptr<AttachmentReader>(new MockAttachmentReader(iterations, receiveSizes)))), actual: 4-byte object <02-00 00-00> vs 4-byte object <02-00 00-00>
     2017-08-07 15:58:59.188 [  2] E MediaPlayer:playFailed:reason=sourceNotSet
     /path/to/SDK/source/MediaPlayer/test/MediaPlayerTest.cpp:413: Failure
     Expected: (MediaPlayerStatus::FAILURE) != (m_mediaPlayer->play()), actual: 4-byte object <02-00 00-00> vs 4-byte object <02-00 00-00>
    
     (MediaPlayerTest:970): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_get_state: assertion 'GST_IS_ELEMENT (element)' failed
     2017-08-07 15:58:59.188 [  1] E MediaPlayer:doStopFailed:reason=gstElementGetStateFailed
    
     (MediaPlayerTest:970): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_object_unref: assertion 'object != NULL' failed
    
     (MediaPlayerTest:970): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_source_remove: assertion 'tag > 0' failed
     [  FAILED  ] MediaPlayerTest.testStartPlayWaitForEnd (7 ms)
     [ RUN      ] MediaPlayerTest.testStartPlayForUrl
     2017-08-07 15:58:59.188 [  3] E MediaPlayer:setupPipelineFailed:reason=createConverterElementFailed
     2017-08-07 15:58:59.188 [  3] E MediaPlayer:handleSetSourceForUrlFailed:reason=setupPipelineFailed
     2017-08-07 15:58:59.188 [  2] E MediaPlayer:playFailed:reason=sourceNotSet
    /path/to/SDK/source/MediaPlayer/test/MediaPlayerTest.cpp:427: Failure
     Expected: (MediaPlayerStatus::FAILURE) != (m_mediaPlayer->play()), actual: 4-byte object <02-00 00-00> vs 4-byte object <02-00 00-00>
    
     (MediaPlayerTest:970): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_get_state: assertion 'GST_IS_ELEMENT (element)' failed
     2017-08-07 15:58:59.188 [  4] E MediaPlayer:doStopFailed:reason=gstElementGetStateFailed
    
     (MediaPlayerTest:970): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_object_unref: assertion 'object != NULL' failed
    
     (MediaPlayerTest:970): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 100 was not found when attempting to remove it
     [  FAILED  ] MediaPlayerTest.testStartPlayForUrl (0 ms)
     [----------] 2 tests from MediaPlayerTest (7 ms total)
    
     [----------] Global test environment tear-down
     [==========] 2 tests from 1 test case ran. (7 ms total)
     [  PASSED  ] 0 tests.
     [  FAILED  ] 2 tests, listed below:
     [  FAILED  ] MediaPlayerTest.testStartPlayWaitForEnd
     [  FAILED  ] MediaPlayerTest.testStartPlayForUrl
    
      2 FAILED TESTS
    

    Before you report the failure, it's important that you observe how frequently these tests fail. You can have the tests repeat themselves by passing the --repeat-until-fail n flag where n is the number of tries. If you observe the failures intermittently, then please note that in your issue report after attaching the final printout. For example:

    Note: If you have ACSDK_EMIT_SENSITIVE_LOGS flags enabled and your printout contains sensitive information like user name, client ID, or refresh token, please remove those from the logs before submitting an issue.


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Last updated: Jul 25, 2022