Test data server, with properties

• Light-weight (web?) server with minimal dependecies

• Dynamic data allocation: No need to know, how many users are using the same pool, no need to manually divide the pool: User always gets the "oldest" data globally.

• Dynamic data allocation#2: All data is used (=global round robin), minimizes the need of the test data.

• Serves test data globally for the whole organisation (=guaranteed unique data)

• First Basic functionality: "Give me data". Which retrieves the first line and puts it last (round-robin)

• Client needing globally unique test data sends request to server. Request is basic http GET and response can be plain-text

• Server have to take care of race condition, simultaneous requests are queued and they are served as soon as earlier request is served and database unlocked

• Database can be file, file based DB, real DB...as long as it serves "light-weight"

• Possibility to expand later

  • Different test data/tables can live in their own ports.
  • Other fetching methods (give me random row. Push fetched row to the end=true/false, etc...
  • Set test data (row) locked until it is exclusively unlocked
  • Import data with UI and/or via API

• Implementation preferably with Python, release via Pypi, automated deployment pipeline (including tests), ....

• Source code hosted in Github

• Planned first (pre)release 0.0.1 available in Pypi @1.11.2018

Get Test Data Server code

git clone https://github.com/Omenia/TestDataServer.git
cd TestDataServer

Development

There are three ways to run Test Data Server in development

Run Test Data Server in Python vitual environment

Create Python virtualenv

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Install Python dependencies

pip3 install -r server/requirements.txt

Install frontend packages

Node.js needs to be installed. Install Node.js

cd client
npm install

Build frontend

npm run build

Start server

cd ..
python3 server/testdataserver.py

Run Test Data Server in Docker container without Robot tests

Build Test Data Server Docker image

docker build -t testdataserver .

Run Test Data Server Docker image

docker run -d -v db:/db -p 80:8000 testdataserver

Run Test Data Server and Robot test in Docker containers

Build Docker images

docker-compose build

Run Test Data Server and Robot test Docker containers

docker-compose run --rm robottests

Production

To be update

Web user interface

Go to http://localhost when server is running.