Welcome to TestKube Tracetest Executor

TestKube Tracetest Executor is a test executor to run Tracetest tests with TestKube.

Running Tracetest with Testkube

Tracetest is a testing tool based on OpenTelemetry that allows you to test your distributed application. It allows you to use your telemetry data generated by the OpenTelemetry tools to check and assert if your application has the desired behavior defined by your test definitions.

Prerequisites

• Trecetest Server: You'll need a running instance of Tracetest which is going to be executing your tests and assertions. To do so you can follow the instructions defined in the Tracetest documentation.

• OpenTelemetry Instrumented Service: In order to generate traces and spans, the service under test must support the basics for propagation through HTTP requests, and also store traces and spans into a Data Store Backend (Jaeger, Grafana Tempo, OpenSearch, etc) or use the OpenTelemetry Collector.

1. Deploying the Tracetest Executor

First you need to register and deploy the Tracetest executor in your cluster using the Testkube CLI:

kubectl testkube create executor --image kubeshop/testkube-executor-tracetest:latest --types "tracetest/test" --name tracetest-executor

2. Creating and running your test

Now you need a Tracetest test. Have a look at the Tracetest documentation for details on writing tests. Here is a simple test definition example:

type: Test
spec:
  id: R5NITR14g
  name: Pokeshop - List
  description: Get a Pokemon
  trigger:
    type: http
    httpRequest:
      url: http://demo-pokemon-api.demo/pokemon?take=20&skip=0
      method: GET
      headers:
        - key: Content-Type
          value: application/json
  specs:
    - selector: span[tracetest.span.type="http"]
      assertions:
        - attr:http.method = "GET"
    - selector: span[tracetest.span.type="database"]
      assertions:
        - attr:db.name = "pokeshop"

Execute the following command to create the test executor object in Testkube. Do not forget to provide the path to your Tracetest definition file using the --file argument, and also the Tracetest Server endpoint using the TRACETEST_ENDPOINT --variable:

kubectl testkube create test --file my/file/location.yaml --type "tracetest/test" --name pokeshop-tracetest-test --variable TRACETEST_ENDPOINT=http://tracetest

Finally you can run the test:

kubectl testkube run test --watch pokeshop-tracetest-test

Architecture

sequenceDiagram
    testkube client->>+testkube: Trigger Testkube test run
    testkube->>+executor CRDs: Get executor details
    executor CRDs-->>-testkube: Send details
    testkube->>+tracetest executor job: Schedules execution
    tracetest executor job->>+tracetest executor job: Configure Tracetest CLI
    tracetest executor job->>+tracetest server: Executes the Tracetest test run
    tracetest server->>+instrumented service: Trigger request
    instrumented service-->>-tracetest server: Get response
    instrumented service->>+data store: Send telemetry data
    tracetest server->>+data store: Fetch trace
    data store-->>-tracetest server: Get trace
    tracetest server->>+tracetest server: Run assertions
    tracetest server-->>-tracetest executor job: Return test run results
    tracetest executor job-->>-testkube: Return test run results
    testkube-->>-testkube client: Send details

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