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Source Acceptance Tests Reference

To ensure a minimum quality bar, Airbyte runs all connectors against the same set of integration tests (sources & destinations have two different test suites). Those tests ensure that each connector adheres to the Airbyte Specification and responds correctly to Airbyte commands when provided valid (or invalid) inputs.

Note: If you are looking for reference documentation for the deprecated first version of test suites, see Standard Tests (Legacy).

Architecture of standard tests

The Standard Test Suite runs its tests against the connector's Docker image. It takes as input the configuration file acceptance-tests-config.yml.

Standard test sequence diagram

The Standard Test Suite use pytest as a test runner and was built as pytest plugin source-acceptance-test. This plugin adds a new configuration option —acceptance-test-config - it should points to the folder with acceptance-tests-config.yml.

Each test suite has a timeout and will fail if the limit is exceeded.

See all the test cases, their description, and inputs in Source Acceptance Tests.

Setting up standard tests for your connector

Create acceptance-test-config.yml. In most cases, your connector already has this file in its root folder. Here is an example of the minimal acceptance-test-config.yml:

connector_image: airbyte/source-some-connector:dev
tests:
  spec:
    - spec_path: "some_folder/spec.json"

Build your connector image if needed.

docker build .

Run one of the two scripts in the root of the connector:

  • python -m pytest -p integration_tests.acceptance - to run tests inside virtual environment
  • ./acceptance-test-docker.sh - to run tests from a docker container

If the test fails you will see detail about the test and where to find its inputs and outputs to reproduce it. You can also debug failed tests by adding —pdb —last-failed:

python -m pytest -p integration_tests.acceptance --pdb --last-failed

See other useful pytest options here

Dynamically managing inputs & resources used in standard tests

Since the inputs to standard tests are often static, the file-based runner is sufficient for most connectors. However, in some cases, you may need to run pre or post hooks to dynamically create or destroy resources for use in standard tests. For example, if we need to spin up a Redshift cluster to use in the test then tear it down afterwards, we need the ability to run code before and after the tests, as well as customize the Redshift cluster URL we pass to the standard tests. If you have need for this use case, please reach out to us via Github or Slack. We currently support it for Java & Python, and other languages can be made available upon request.

Python

Create pytest yield-fixture with your custom setup/teardown code and place it in integration_tests/acceptance.py, Example of fixture that starts a docker container before tests and stops before exit:

@pytest.fixture(scope="session", autouse=True)
def connector_setup():
    """ This fixture is a placeholder for external resources that acceptance test might require.
    """
    client = docker.from_env()
    container = client.containers.run("your/docker-image", detach=True)
    yield
    container.stop()

These tests are configurable via acceptance-test-config.yml. Each test has a number of inputs, you can provide multiple sets of inputs which will cause the same to run multiple times - one for each set of inputs.

Example of acceptance-test-config.yml:

connector_image: string  # Docker image to test, for example 'airbyte/source-hubspot:0.1.0'
base_path: string  # Base path for all relative paths, optional, default - ./
tests:  # Tests configuration 
  spec: # list of the test inputs
  connection: # list of the test inputs
    - config_path: string  # set #1 of inputs
      status: string
    - config_path: string  # set #2 of inputs
      status: string
  # discovery:  # skip this test
  incremental: []  # skip this test as well

Test Spec

Verify that a spec operation issued to the connector returns a valid spec.

Input Type Default Note
spec_path string secrets/spec.json Path to a JSON object representing the spec expected to be output by this connector
timeout_seconds int 10 Test execution timeout in seconds

Test Connection

Verify that a check operation issued to the connector with the input config file returns a successful response.

Input Type Default Note
config_path string secrets/config.json Path to a JSON object representing a valid connector configuration
status succeed failed exception Indicate if connection check should succeed with provided config
timeout_seconds int 30 Test execution timeout in seconds

Test Discovery

Verifies when a discover operation is run on the connector using the given config file, a valid catalog is produced by the connector.

Input Type Default Note
config_path string secrets/config.json Path to a JSON object representing a valid connector configuration
configured_catalog_path string integration_tests/configured_catalog.json Path to configured catalog
timeout_seconds int 30 Test execution timeout in seconds

Test Basic Read

Configuring all streams in the input catalog to full refresh mode verifies that a read operation produces some RECORD messages. Each stream should have some data, if you can't guarantee this for particular streams - add them to the empty_streams list. Set validate_data_points=True if possible. This validation is going to be enabled by default and won't be configurable in future releases.

Input Type Default Note
config_path string secrets/config.json Path to a JSON object representing a valid connector configuration
configured_catalog_path string integration_tests/configured_catalog.json Path to configured catalog
empty_streams array [] List of streams that might be empty
validate_schema boolean True Verify that structure and types of records matches the schema from discovery command
validate_data_points boolean False Validate that all fields in all streams contained at least one data point
timeout_seconds int 5*60 Test execution timeout in seconds
expect_records object None Compare produced records with expected records, see details below
expect_records.path string File with expected records
expect_records.extra_fields boolean False Allow output records to have other fields i.e: expected records are a subset
expect_records.exact_order boolean False Ensure that records produced in exact same order
expect_records.extra_records boolean True Allow connector to produce extra records, but still enforce all records from the expected file to be produced

expect_records is a nested configuration, if omitted - the part of the test responsible for record matching will be skipped. Due to the fact that we can't identify records without primary keys, only the following flag combinations are supported:

extra_fields exact_order extra_records
x x
x x
x
x

Schema format checking

If some field has format attribute specified on its catalog json schema, Source Acceptance Testing framework performs checking against format. It support checking of all builtin jsonschema formats for draft 7 specification: email, hostnames, ip addresses, time, date and date-time formats.

Note: For date-time we are not checking against compliance against ISO8601 (and RFC3339 as subset of it). Since we are using specified format to set database column type on db normalization stage, value should be compliant to bigquery timestamp and SQL "timestamp with timezone" formats.

Example of expected_records.txt:

In general, the expected_records.json should contain the subset of output of the records of particular stream you need to test. The required fields are: stream, data, emitted_at

{"stream": "my_stream", "data": {"field_1": "value0", "field_2": "value0", "field_3": null, "field_4": {"is_true": true}, "field_5": 123}, "emitted_at": 1626172757000}
{"stream": "my_stream", "data": {"field_1": "value1", "field_2": "value1", "field_3": null, "field_4": {"is_true": false}, "field_5": 456}, "emitted_at": 1626172757000}
{"stream": "my_stream", "data": {"field_1": "value2", "field_2": "value2", "field_3": null, "field_4": {"is_true": true}, "field_5": 678}, "emitted_at": 1626172757000}
{"stream": "my_stream", "data": {"field_1": "value3", "field_2": "value3", "field_3": null, "field_4": {"is_true": false}, "field_5": 91011}, "emitted_at": 1626172757000}

Test Full Refresh sync

TestSequentialReads

This test performs two read operations on all streams which support full refresh syncs. It then verifies that the RECORD messages output from both were identical or the former is a strict subset of the latter.

Input Type Default Note
config_path string secrets/config.json Path to a JSON object representing a valid connector configuration
configured_catalog_path string integration_tests/configured_catalog.json Path to configured catalog
timeout_seconds int 20*60 Test execution timeout in seconds
ignored_fields dict None For each stream, list of fields path ignoring in sequential reads test

Test Incremental sync

TestTwoSequentialReads

This test verifies that all streams in the input catalog which support incremental sync can do so correctly. It does this by running two read operations: the first takes the configured catalog and config provided to this test as input. It then verifies that the sync produced a non-zero number of RECORD and STATE messages. The second read takes the same catalog and config used in the first test, plus the last STATE message output by the first read operation as the input state file. It verifies that either no records are produced (since we read all records in the first sync) or all records that produced have cursor value greater or equal to cursor value from STATE message. This test is performed only for streams that support incremental. Streams that do not support incremental sync are ignored. If no streams in the input catalog support incremental sync, this test is skipped.

Input Type Default Note
config_path string secrets/config.json Path to a JSON object representing a valid connector configuration
configured_catalog_path string integration_tests/configured_catalog.json Path to configured catalog
cursor_paths dict {} For each stream, the path of its cursor field in the output state messages. If omitted the path will be taken from the last piece of path from stream cursor_field.
timeout_seconds int 20*60 Test execution timeout in seconds

TestStateWithAbnormallyLargeValues

This test verifies that sync produces no records when run with the STATE with abnormally large values

Input Type Default Note
config_path string secrets/config.json Path to a JSON object representing a valid connector configuration
configured_catalog_path string integration_tests/configured_catalog.json Path to configured catalog
future_state_path string None Path to the state file with abnormally large cursor values
timeout_seconds int 20*60 Test execution timeout in seconds