To avoid regression, we recommend adding unit tests for all your tasks.

There are two main ways to unit-test your tasks. Both will be regular Micronaut tests, and hence must be annotated with @MicronautTest.

Unit test a RunnableTask

This is the most common way to test a RunnableTask. You create your RunnableTask, and test output or Exception. This will cover most of the cases.

Example

This is same as any Java unit tests, feel free to use any dependencies, test methods, start docker containers, ...

Unit test with a full flow

In case you want to add some unit test with a full flow (In some rare case, it can be necessary; for example, for FlowableTask), here is how you can write the unit test with the full flow.

Example

With this, you will:

  • Inject all dependencies with @Inject.
  • On init(), load all the flow on the src/resources/flow directory.
  • Run a full execution with Execution execution = runnerUtils.runOne(null, "io.kestra.templates", "example");. The first parameter is for the tenantId which can be null on tests.

With this execution, you can look at all the properties you want to control (status, taskRunList number, outputs, ...)

To make it work, you need to have an application.yml file with this minimum configuration:

yaml
kestra:
  repository:
    type: memory
  queue:
    type: memory
  storage:
    type: local
    local:
      base-path: /tmp/unittest

And these dependencies on your build.gradle:

groovy
    testImplementation group: "io.kestra", name: "core", version: kestraVersion
    testImplementation group: "io.kestra", name: "repository-memory", version: kestraVersion
    testImplementation group: "io.kestra", name: "runner-memory", version: kestraVersion
    testImplementation group: "io.kestra", name: "storage-local", version: kestraVersion

This will enable the in memory runner and will run your flow without any other dependencies (kafka, ...).

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