Test Your E-Commerce Application#

To test new applications that you develop for the E-Commerce service, you create and run tests for the Open edX platform first, and then you run a set of tests that are specific to E-Commerce.

For more information about tests for the Open edX platform, see Test Features.

Tests for E-Commerce#

When you develop E-Commerce applications, you must run a pre-packaged set of unit tests, Python tests, and E-Commerce acceptance tests.

Run E-Commerce Unit Tests#

The E-Commerce unit tests include migrations, the unit test suite, and quality checks. You can run the full unit test, or save time for a local test by disabling the migrations. (You can also run the quality checks independent of the unit test suite.)

Note

The first time you run tests, and any time numerous unit tests fail with an OfflineGenerationError message, run the following command to update the static assets:

$ DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=ecommerce.settings.test make static
  • To run the full unit test, including migrations and quality checks, use the following command.

    $ make validate
    
  • To run unit tests with quality checks but without migrations, run the following command.

    $ DISABLE_MIGRATIONS=1 make validate
    

    Note

    We recommend that you only run tests without migrations when you run the tests locally.

  • To validate code quality independently, run the following command.

    $ make quality
    

Python Unit Tests#

When you create E-Commerce tests, use the TestCase class in ecommerce/tests/testcases.py to ensure every test has Site and Partner objects configured. This will help you test any code that relies on these models, which are used for multi-tenancy.

  • To run a test really fast, use pytest.

    $ pytest path/to/file.py::TestSuiteClass::test_name
    
    • Note: You must update requirements and migrations before running with pytest.

    • Some tests involving the database may be flaky. If this doesn’t work, use the manage.py method below.

  • To run all Python unit tests and quality checks, run the following command.

    $ make validate_python
    
  • To run all Python unit tests and quality checks in parallel, run the following command.

    $ make fast_validate_python
    
  • To run the Python unit tests in a specific file and a specific test, such as ecommerce/courses/tests/test_utils.py, run the following command and substitute the desired file path.

    $ pytest ecommerce/courses/tests/test_utils.py::UtilsTests::test_get_course_info_from_catalog_cached
    

To debug when running tests using manage.py, you may need to use the following instead of pdb directly, or nosetests may hang while creating the database:

import nose.tools as nosepdb; nosepdb.set_trace()

JavaScript Unit Tests#

The E-Commerce project uses Jasmine for JavaScript unit testing. To create these tests, place your tests in the ecommerce/static/js/test/specs directory, and add a _spec suffix. For example, your test name may be ecommerce/static/js/test/specs/course_list_view_spec.js.

All JavaScript code must adhere to the edX JavaScript standards. These standards are enforced using ESLint.

  • To run all JavaScript unit tests and linting checks, run the following command.

    $ make validate_js
    
Run E-Commerce Acceptance Tests#

To run specific acceptance tests for the E-Commerce service, you must complete the following procedures.

Configure the LMS#

To configure the LMS, follow these steps.

  1. Verify that the following settings in lms.env.json are correct.

    "ECOMMERCE_API_URL": "http://localhost:8002/api/v2/"
    "ECOMMERCE_PUBLIC_URL_ROOT": "http://localhost:8002/"
    "JWT_ISSUER": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/oauth2" // Must match the E-Commerce JWT_ISSUER setting
    "OAUTH_ENFORCE_SECURE": false
    
  2. Verify that the following settings in lms.yml are correct.

    "EDX_API_KEY": "replace-me" // Must match the E-Commerce EDX_API_KEY setting
    "ECOMMERCE_API_SIGNING_KEY": "insecure-secret-key" // Must match the E-Commerce JWT_SECRET_KEY setting
    
  3. Verify that an LMS account with staff and superuser permissions exists.

    By default, most devstack and fullstack LMS instances include a user account that has staff permissions. This account has the username staff, the email address staff@example.com, and the password edx. Run the following commands to grant the account superuser permissions.

    $ ``./manage.py lms shell --settings=devstack``
    >>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
    >>> u = User.objects.get(username='staff')
    >>> u.is_superuser = True
    >>> u.save()
    
  4. In the Django administration panel, verify that an OAuth2 client with the following attributes exists. If one does not already exist, create a new one. The client ID and secret must match the values of the E-Commerce SOCIAL_AUTH_EDX_OAUTH2_KEY and SOCIAL_AUTH_EDX_OAUTH2_SECRET settings, respectively.

    URL:  http://localhost:8002/
    Redirect uris: http://localhost:8002/complete/edx-oauth2/
    Client id: 'replace-me'
    Client secret: 'replace-me'
    Client type: Confidentials
    Authorization grant type: Authorization code
    
  5. In the Django administration panel, verify that the OAuth2 client referred to above is designated as a trusted client. If this isn’t already the case, add the client created above as a new trusted client.

  6. In the Django administration panel, create a new access token for the superuser account. Set the client to the OAuth2 client referred to above. Make note of this token; it is required to run the acceptance tests.

  7. Make sure that the LMS instance that you will use for testing has at least two courses that learners could enroll in. By default, most LMS instances include the edX demonstration course. Use Studio to create a second course.

Configure E-Commerce#

You use the CAT to finish configuring the two courses in your LMS instance.

  1. In your browser, go to http://localhost:8002/courses/ to access the CAT.

  2. In the CAT, add both of the courses present on your LMS instance to E-Commerce. Configure one as a “Free (Audit)” course, and the second as a “Verified” course.

  3. So that you can test integration with external payment processors, update the contents of the PAYMENT_PROCESSOR_CONFIG dictionary found in the settings with valid credentials. To override the default values for development, create a private settings module, private.py, and set PAYMENT_PROCESSOR_CONFIG inside the module.

    Note

    If you created a private.py file to create settings overrides when you set up your virtual environment, you can use that same private.py file.

Configure Acceptance Tests#

You configure acceptance tests by using the settings in the ecommerce/blob/master/acceptance_tests/config.py file. You can use the default values for most settings in this file. However, you must specify values for the following settings by using environment variables.

Variable

Description

ACCESS_TOKEN

The OAuth2 access token used to authenticate requests.

ECOMMERCE_URL_ROOT

The URL root for the E-Commerce service.

ECOMMERCE_TEST_WEB_SECURITY

Whether to run security tests against the E-Commerce service.

LMS_URL_ROOT

The URL root for the LMS.

LMS_USERNAME

A username for any current LMS user, to use during testing.

LMS_EMAIL

The email address used to sign in to the LMS.

LMS_PASSWORD

The password used to sign in to the LMS.

If you test PayPal integration, you must also specify values for the following settings by using environment variables.

Variable

Description

PAYPAL_EMAIL

The email address used to sign in to PayPal during payment.

PAYPAL_PASSWORD

The password used to sign in to PayPal during payment.

Run Acceptance Tests#

Run all acceptance tests by executing make e2e. To run a specific test, execute the following command.

$ nosetests -v <path/to/the/test/module>

The acceptance tests rely on the environment variables that you have configured. For example, when you run the acceptance tests against local instances of E-Commerce and the LMS, you might run the following command, replacing values between angle brackets (<>) with your own values.

$ ECOMMERCE_URL_ROOT="http://localhost:8002" LMS_URL_ROOT="http://127.0.0.1:8000" LMS_USERNAME="<username>" LMS_EMAIL="<email address>" LMS_PASSWORD="<password>" ACCESS_TOKEN="<access token>" LMS_HTTPS="False" LMS_AUTO_AUTH="True" PAYPAL_EMAIL="<email address>" PAYPAL_PASSWORD="<password>" ENABLE_CYBERSOURCE_TESTS="False" VERIFIED_COURSE_ID="<course ID>" make e2e

When you run the acceptance tests against a production-like staging environment, you might run the following command.

$ ECOMMERCE_URL_ROOT="https://ecommerce.stage.edx.org" LMS_URL_ROOT="https://courses.stage.edx.org" LMS_USERNAME="<username>" LMS_EMAIL="<email address>" LMS_PASSWORD="<password>" ACCESS_TOKEN="<access token>" LMS_HTTPS="True" LMS_AUTO_AUTH="False" PAYPAL_EMAIL="<email address>" PAYPAL_PASSWORD="<password>" BASIC_AUTH_USERNAME="<username>" BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD="<password>" HONOR_COURSE_ID="<course ID>" VERIFIED_COURSE_ID="<course ID>" make e2e