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Write CI-executable acceptance/integration tests for protocol or end-to-end changes (TR-F022). Use whenever a milestone subtask needs CI-backed acceptance, covering test/integration integration tests and unit tests.

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Skill: Write CI Automated Acceptance Tests

Feature ID: TR-F022 | Scope: all protocol / end-to-end acceptance

Goal

Every milestone subtask's acceptance criteria must be backed by a CI-executable test. This skill explains where the two test types live and how to write them.

Two test types

1. Unit / logic acceptance - *_test.go

  • Same package as the code under test; the CI test job runs go test -short ./....
  • For: pure logic, attribute encode/decode, validators, config parsing, etc.
  • How-to: see ../write-go-tests/SKILL.md.

2. End-to-end / protocol acceptance - test/integration/

  • First line //go:build integration, package integration.
  • Backed by a real PostgreSQL (the production default database), driving live RADIUS / Admin services with real packets.
  • The CI integration job runs it automatically: 
    go test -tags=integration -count=1 -v ./test/integration/...
INTEGRATION_REQUIRED=1   # CI hard-fails when the environment is missing, preventing false green
  • Existing templates:
    • test/integration/main_test.go - shared harness (DB setup, service startup)
    • test/integration/radius_test.go - real PAP Access-Request end-to-end
    • test/integration/adminapi_test.go - Admin API end-to-end
    • test/integration/migration_test.go - migration
    • test/integration/client_test.go

Pre-research

view test/integration/main_test.go          # harness usage
view test/integration/radius_test.go         # RADIUS end-to-end template
grep_search "INTEGRATION_REQUIRED" --include test/**
view Makefile                                # test / test-integration-pg targets

Local run

# unit
go test ./...
# integration (auto-starts the Postgres in docker-compose.test.yml, cleans up afterwards)
make test-integration-pg
# or, after manually providing TEST_DATABASE_*:
go test -tags=integration -count=1 -v ./test/integration/...

Steps to add an end-to-end acceptance case

  1. Create or extend <feature>_test.go under test/integration/, with //go:build integration as the first line.
  2. Reuse the main_test.go harness to create data and start services; drive real packets for the new feature (e.g. EAP-TLS / CoA) following the existing radius_test.go pattern.
  3. Assert both success and failure paths (reject reasons, timeouts, NAS rejects, etc.).
  4. Do not t.Parallel() for cases that serially depend on global state (see the comments in radius_test.go).
  5. Confirm the CI integration job covers the path (it runs all of ./test/integration/... by default; no CI change needed).

Boundaries

  • Integration cases must not depend on external public services; provide dependencies via a service container / compose.
  • Do not weaken assertions or skip failure paths just to pass.

Acceptance

  • The new feature has a corresponding CI automated acceptance case (unit or integration)
  • Failure paths are asserted
  • make test-integration-pg passes locally
  • The CI test and integration jobs pass