The Puppet Enterprise (PE) Beaker Library

The PE Beaker library contains all PE-specific

1. installation methods
2. helpers

that help someone acceptance test PE easier with Beaker.

• Rubydocs contain the technical reference for APIs and other aspects of beaker-pe. They describe how it works and how to use it but assume that you have a basic understanding of key concepts.
• How-to guides are recipes. They guide you through the steps involved in addressing key problems and use-cases. For instance, checkout our How-to Install Puppet Enterprise doc.

If you've used beaker-pe previously (during the 0.y versions), you'll have to change the way that you include beaker-pe for 1.y versions & beyond.

Before, you could just include beaker itself and you'd get beaker-pe because beaker required beaker-pe. With beaker 3.0, this dependency has been taken out of beaker. Now to use beaker-pe, you'll have to do two things:

1. add a beaker-pe requirement as a sibling to your current beaker gem requirement
2. put a require 'beaker-pe' statement in your tests/code that need beaker-pe-specific functionality

Spec tests require a version of scooter that is private. Execute export GEM_SOURCE=http://rubygems.delivery.puppetlabs.net prior to running bundle install --path .bundle/gems/.

Spec tests all live under the spec folder. These are the default rake task, & so can be run with a simple bundle exec rake, as well as being fully specified by running bundle exec rake test:spec:run or using the test:spec task.

There are also code coverage tests built into the template, which can be run with spec testing by running the test:spec:coverage rake task.

Acceptance tests live in the acceptance/tests folder. These are Beaker tests, & are dependent on having Beaker installed. Note that this will happen with a bundle install execution, but can be avoided if you're not looking to run acceptance tests by ignoring the acceptance_testing gem group.

You can run the acceptance testing suite by invoking the test:acceptance rake task. It should be noted that this is a shortcut for the test:acceptance:quick task, which is named as such because it uses no pre-suite. This uses a default provided hosts file for acceptance under the acceptance/config directory. If you'd like to provide your own hosts file, set the CONFIG environment variable.

To release new versions, we use a Jenkins job (access to internal infrastructure will be required to view job).

To release a new version (from the master branch), you'll need to just provide a new beaker-pe version number to the job, and you're off to the races.

If you have questions, please reach out to our MAINTAINERS.