unable to get Hudson to run unit tests

[j vickroy]

Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
> j vickroy wrote:
>> Stefan Behnel wrote:
>>> j vickroy, 07.05.2010 20:44:
>>>> I apologize if this is not the appropriate forum for a question about
>>>> Hudson (http://hudson-ci.org/), but I did not know where else to ask 
>>>> and
>>>> my web searches have not been fruitful.
>>>
>>> Certainly nice to read something about Hudson in this forum, which is 
>>> rare enough. It's seriously the greatest CI tool I've ever used, and 
>>> it works great with Python apps.
>>>
>>>
>>>> "C:\Python26\Scripts\nosetests.exe --with-xunit --verbose"
>>>>
>>>> in the *Execute Python Script* subsection.
>>>
>>> The problem is that this isn't a "Python Script". I's a an 
>>> executable, native program. Use the "execute shell" build step instead.
>>>
>>> Stefan
>>>
>> Thanks for your reply, Stefan.
>>
>> When the above command
>>
>> "C:\Python26\Scripts\nosetests.exe --with-xunit --verbose"
>>
>> is moved to the "Execute shell" section of the job configuration page 
>> along with the following "tracer" command:
>>
>> #!python.exe
>> print 'FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO'
>>
>> their is still no indication the unit tests are run.
>>
>> Here is the output from the Hudson Console Output page
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Started by user anonymous
>> Updating svn://vm-svn/GOES data 
>> processing/trunk/GOES/13,14,15/SXI/level-1
>> At revision 3401
>> no change for svn://vm-svn/GOES data 
>> processing/trunk/GOES/13,14,15/SXI/level-1 since the previous build
>> [workspace] $ python.exe 
>> C:\DOCUME~1\JIM~1.VIC\LOCALS~1\Temp\hudson2011616575490005324.sh
>> FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>> [workspace] $ cmd.exe -xe 
>> C:\DOCUME~1\JIM~1.VIC\LOCALS~1\Temp\hudson902246697107326581.sh
>> Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
>> (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
>>
>> C:\Documents and Settings\jim.vickroy\.hudson\jobs\GOES 13-15 SXI 
>> Level-1 Products Generation\workspace>Recording test results
>> Test reports were found but none of them are new. Did tests run?
>> For example, C:\Documents and Settings\jim.vickroy\.hudson\jobs\GOES 
>> 13-15 SXI Level-1 Products Generation\workspace\level-1\nosetests.xml 
>> is 2 days 19 hr old
>>
>> Finished: FAILURE
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> As a side note, my Hudson "global" configuration page contains:
>>
>> cmd.exe
>>
>> in the "Shell executable" section and
>>
>> NOSEDIR
>> C:\Python26\Scripts
>>
>> in the "Global properties" section.
>>
>> -- jv
> Maybe something is missing on the machine hosting hudson, did you try to 
> execute nosetests.exe on that machine ?

Hudson is running on my workstation (which also has python and nose 
installed).

> I'm also confused with something, you do not provide nosetests with the 
> location of your package, assuming the current directory contains that 
> package (my guess).

That is correct but see below ...

> Instead of printing 'FOOO', try "import os ; print os.getcwd(); print 
> os.listdir(os.getcwd())" to know where you are exactly and if this dir 
> contains your python package.

great suggestion !

This showed the current working directory to be one level above where I 
expected so that was definitely a problem so I changed my nose command, 
in the Hudson Job configuration Execute shell box, to be

nosetests.exe --where=level-1 --with-xunit --verbose

and saved the configuration change.

This works as expected when run from a command shell in the Hudson 
current working directory for this Hudson job.

Unfortunately, when "Hudson Build now" is performed, the Hudson Console 
output, for this job, is:

------------------------------------------------------------
Started by user anonymous
Updating svn://vm-svn/GOES data processing/trunk/GOES/13,14,15/SXI/level-1
At revision 3403
no change for svn://vm-svn/GOES data 
processing/trunk/GOES/13,14,15/SXI/level-1 since the previous build
[workspace] $ python.exe 
C:\DOCUME~1\JIM~1.VIC\LOCALS~1\Temp\hudson5273111667332806239.sh
os.getcwd(): C:\Documents and Settings\jim.vickroy\.hudson\jobs\GOES 
13-15 SXI Level-1 Products Generation\workspace
os.listdir(os.getcwd()): ['level-1']
[workspace] $ cmd.exe -xe 
C:\DOCUME~1\JIM~1.VIC\LOCALS~1\Temp\hudson991194264891924641.sh
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\jim.vickroy\.hudson\jobs\GOES 13-15 SXI 
Level-1 Products Generation\workspace>Recording test results
No test report files were found. Configuration error?
Finished: FAILURE
------------------------------------------------------------

The second [workspace] section output (above) looks like cmd.exe is 
being executed with no parameters (i.e., without the
"nosetests.exe --where=level-1 --with-xunit --verbose") parameter.

Thanks for thinking about this; I realize how difficult it is to 
remotely troubleshoot a problem like this.

-- jv

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> JM
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