Automated testing for groovy scripts (script runner + behaviours plugins)

Nathon Fowlie

I'm currently managing a large JIRA instance that has a large number of groovy scripts to enforce particular business process etc. Every time a change is made myself and others have to spend a large amount of time manually testing changes and it's leading to alot of human error (easy to miss edge cases etc).

Some of the scripts also need to be bulletproof because business effectively would stop if they broke, so I need a robust, consistent way to confirm they do what they're supposed to and that changes don't have unintended consequences.

I was wondering if it's possible to build unit, functional & regression tests for groovy scripts that run inside the Script Runner & Behaviours plugins? Not sure if it really makes any difference but the scripts are a mix of scripted event listeners, post functions and field validators, with a small amount of data being pulled from an external database.

JamieA

Agree with Bob although not necessarily about the mechanism. Personally, I have a maven dev profile that includes junit and spock, and it will search out unit tests so they can be run from within jira. I've tried many approaches including mocking, and the SDKs own integration test runner, and imho this is by far the fastest for development as it doesn't require any plugin compilation and upload.

These also include tests that do as Bob suggest, create issue, move through workflow etc. Where possible I test without that baggage though.

I might look into making this available if it might be helpful. The reason why I haven't is because including junit, spock, geb and webdriver makes the plugin much chunkier.

But you could just write a groovy script that drives an issue through the workflow, and test the expected outcomes at each point, being sure to test the edge cases you're talking about. You'd then run this from the admin console after making changes. Not ideal but better than nothing.