Jenkins and Google Test (death test) using fork() - unit-testing

we use Jenkins and Google Test for our project.
I wrote a GTest death test (EXPECT_EXIT) for our code.
It forks the code which is tested and captures its return code.
My tested code either terminates with signal 6 or with exit code 0.
Running the test on my local machine works out fine, it captures the code correctly.
Jenkins on the other hand probably does not fork()? The unit test terminates with signal 6 and the build fails.
Any ideas how this problem can be solved?

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Rust tests fail to even run

I'm writing a project to learn how to use Rust and I'm calling my project future-finance-labs. After writing some basic functions and verifying the app can be built I wanted to include some tests, located in aggregates/mod.rs. [The tests are in the same file as the actual code as per the documentation.] I'm unable to get the tests to run despite following the documentation to the best of my ability. I have tried to build the project using PowerShell as well as Bash. [It fails to run on Fedora Linux as well]
Here is my output on Bash:
~/future-finance-labs$ cargo test -- src/formatters/mod.rs
Finished test [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 5.98s
Running target/debug/deps/future_finance_labs-16ed066e1ea3b9a1
running 0 tests
test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out
Using PowerShell I get the same output with some errors like the following:
error: failed to remove C:\Users\jhale\AppData\Local\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc\LocalState\rootfs\home\jhale\future-finance-labs\target\debug\build\mime_guess-890328c8763afc22\build_script_build-890328c8763afc22.build_script_build.c22di3i8-cgu.0.rcgu.o: The system cannot find the path specified. (os error 3)
After my initial excitement at the prospect of writing a few tests that passed on the first attempt, I quickly realized all the green was indicative; rather, of a failure to even run the tests. I just want to run the unit tests. Running cargo test alone without a separate and file fails as well. Why can't I run any test in this project with my current setup?
It can't find your test because the rust compiler doesn't know about it. You need to add mod aggregates to main.
mod aggregates;
fn main() {
println!("Hello, world!");
}
After you do that, you'll see that your aggregates/mod.rs doesn't compile for many reasons.
And as Mihir was trying to say, you need to use the name of the test, not the name of the file to run a specific test:
cargo test min_works
cargo test aggregates
See also:
How do I “use” or import a local Rust file?
Rust Book: Controlling How Tests Are Run

VS Test step on TFS failing after all tests pass

I have a collection of MsTest and NUnit tests that are being run in TFS 2015 using the VS Test step. I'm using NUnit Test Adapter 3.4.1 to run the tests on the build agent.
At the end, even though the tests pass, Nunit seems to croak and the build step fails with these two errors.
2016-09-04T09:59:44.7209787Z ##[error]Error: Exception NUnit.Engine.NUnitEngineException, Exception thrown executing tests
2016-09-04T09:59:44.7209787Z ##[error]
2016-09-04T09:59:44.7209787Z ##[error]Error: Exception encountered unloading AppDomain
2016-09-04T09:59:44.7209787Z ##[error]
2016-09-04T09:59:44.7209787Z Information: NUnit Adapter 3.4.1.0: Test execution complete
2016-09-04T09:59:44.8615975Z Results File: C:\agent\_work2\1\TestResults\SRV-BLD1 2016-09-04 01_22_45.trx
2016-09-04T09:59:44.8615975Z Total tests: 139. Passed: 134. Failed: 0. Skipped: 5.
I've checked that there are indeed 139 tests in the suite, and 5 are set to ignore (2 are MSTest, and 3 are NUnit).
I'm not sure if there's a place to get more detailed explanation of the error. Searching this site and google seems to suggest that the NUnit.Engine.NUnitEngineException is linked to test discovery (here, and here for instance), but my tests are being discovered, so I'm not sure if this is related (Pretty new to NUnit, so not sure of a lot of things).
I also saw two links dealing with Adapter failures (here and here), but the errors don't quite match up, although maybe just because I don't have the same level of verbosity.
In TFS, the step doesn't have any configuration on it, just that it's enabled and the path to the DLLs.
Does anyone know what is causing the errors (which I'm assuming are causing the build to fail)? Alternatively, what should be the next steps in getting a more precise/verbose error stack to investigate the issue?
As a side note, I saw this SO answer, which states this:
MSTest.exe returned an exit code of 1 indicating that not all tests
passed.
I wasn't able to find any confirmation that VSTests fails when it encounters Skipped tests, but could this also be an issue?
Thank you for any help.
UPDATE
As suggested below, I tried running this from the IDE directly, and got this output (folders redacted)
------ Discover test started ------
NUnit Adapter 3.4.1.0: Test discovery starting
NUnit Adapter 3.4.1.0: Test discovery complete
========== Discover test finished: 139 found (0:00:00.8820879) ==========
------ Run test started ------
System.AppDomainUnloadedException: Attempted to access an unloaded AppDomain. This can happen if the test(s) started a thread but did not stop it. Make sure that all the threads started by the test(s) are stopped before completion.
NUnit Adapter 3.4.1.0: Test execution started
Running all tests in C:\agent\_work2\1\s\codePorject\bin\Debug\codeProjectTests.dll
NUnit3TestExecutor converted 37 of 37 NUnit test cases
System.AppDomainUnloadedException: Attempted to access an unloaded AppDomain. This can happen if the test(s) started a thread but did not stop it. Make sure that all the threads started by the test(s) are stopped before completion.
Exception NUnit.Engine.NUnitEngineException, Exception thrown executing tests
Exception encountered unloading AppDomain
NUnit Adapter 3.4.1.0: Test execution complete
========== Run test finished: 139 run (1:20:10.3290294) ==========
I've found a similar xUnit issue open, but it doesn't seem to have a solution.
This StackOverflow answer suggests to use a sleep timer, so I might try that.
In the end, it looks like some sort of a race condition between Firefox browser windows and nUnit. In my cleanup code, I'm killing firefox and iisexpress processes. Adding a sleep call has eliminated the issue:
public static void AssemblyCleanup()
{
foreach (var process in Process.GetProcessesByName("firefox")) process.Kill();
foreach (var process in Process.GetProcessesByName("iisexpress")) process.Kill();
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000);
}
An NUnitEngineException is what it says: an exception that was discovered by the engine. It can be caused by many things and the message indicates the problem. In your case, the message says "Exception encountered unloading AppDomain" which means... well what it says.
The test adapter catches and handles the exception, producing the message you see. There is some indication that TFS also sees the exception and fails test run as a result. If you were to run this under the VS IDE, I think you would see the message from the adapter but the run would not fail. There is an NUnit3 Test Adapter issue about this, but it's not clear if the solution lies within the adapter or if it's a TFS problem.
If you do try this under the IDE I hope you will post the output window text from that run as well.

NetBeans generated Makefile ignores test return codes

I have a C++ project in NetBeans using generated Makefiles. I set up a job in Jenkins (continuous integration server) to run the tests configured in NetBeans. Now Jenkins runs the tests and captures their output, but it considers the build successful even when a test fails.
I'm using the Boost Unit Test Framework which of course returns a non-zero code on failure as any proper *nix program would. So I wondered why Jenkins didn't understand when a test failed. Then I found this in the generated Makefile-Debug.mk from NetBeans:
# Run Test Targets
.test-conf:
#if [ "${TEST}" = "" ]; \
then \
${TESTDIR}/TestFiles/f1 || true; \
${TESTDIR}/TestFiles/f2 || true; \
else \
./${TEST} || true; \
fi
So it seems like they deliberately ignore the return value of all tests. But this doesn't make sense, because then what are your tests testing?
I tried to find a setting in NetBeans to say "Let failing tests break the build" but didn't find anything. I also tried to find a bug in the NetBeans tracker for this but didn't see any in my brief search.
Is there any other reasonable solution? I want Jenkins to fail my build if any test fails. Right now it only fails if a test fails to build, but if it builds and fails to run, success is reported.
It turns out that NetBeans (up to version 8 at least) cannot support this. What I did to work around it is to do make build-tests rather than make test in Jenkins, followed by a loop over all the generated test files (TestFiles/f* in the build directory) to run them.
This is a major shortcoming in NetBeans' Makefile generator, as it is fundamentally incompatible with running tests outside of NetBeans itself. Thanks to #HEKTO for the link which led me to this page about writing NetBeans testing plugins: http://wiki.netbeans.org/CND69UnitTestsPluginTutotial
What that page tells you is basically that NetBeans relies on parsing the textual output of tests to determine success or failure. What it doesn't tell you is that NetBeans generates defective Makefiles which ignore critical failures in tests, including aborts, segmentation faults, assertion failures, uncaught exceptions, etc. It assumes you will use a test framework that it knows about (which is only CppUnit), or manually write magic strings at the right moments in your test programs.
I thought about taking the time to write a NetBeans unit test plugin for the Boost Unit Test Framework, but it won't help Jenkins at all: the plugins are only used when tests are run inside NetBeans itself, to display pretty status indicators.

Not getting any test results with xunitmultiprocess

I am running tests through Jenkins on a windows box. In my "Execute Windows Batch command" portion of the project configuration I have the following command:
nosetests --nocapture --with-xunitmp --eval-attr "%APPLICATION% and priority<=%PRIORITY% and smoketest and not dev" --processes=4 --process-timeout=2000
The post build actions have "Publish JUnit test result report" with the Test report XMLs path being:
trunk\automation\selenium\src\nosetests.xml
When I do a test run, the nosetests.xml file is created, however it is empty, and I am not getting any Test Results for the build.
I am not really sure what is wrong here.
EDIT 1
I ran the tests with just --with-xunit and REM'd out the --processes and got test results. Does anyone of problems with xunitmp not working with a Windows environment?
EDIT 2
I unstalled an reinstalled nose and nose_xunitmp to no avail.
The nosetest plugin for parallelizing tests and plugin for producing xml output are incompatible. Enabling them at the same time will produce the exact result you got.
If you want to keep using nosetest, you need to execute tests sequentially or find other means of parallelizing them (e.g. by executing multiple parallel nosetest commands (which is what I do at work.))
Alternatively you can use another test runner like nose2 or py.test which do not have this limitation.
Apparently the problem is indeed Windows and how it handles threads. We attempted several tests outside of our Windows Jenkins server and they do not work either. Stupid Windows.

vstest.executionengine.x86.exe not closing

I've encountered an error when running unit tests. If I Debug the unit tests vstest.executionengine.x86.exe runs, then closes when the tests pass.
If I just run the tests (Even if the test is as simple as just creating a new list, with no asserts) vstest.executionengine.x86.exe doesn't close and stays running in task manager.
This is causing an issue for me when it comes to writing more complicated tests that include removing files / cleaning up sqllite databases.
Any help would be appreciated.
EDIT :
Steps to reproduce :
Create New Unit Test Project
Debug Unit Tests - vstest.executionengine.x86 opens and closes, test passes.
Run Unit Tests - vstest.executionengine.x86 opens and stays open
This is by design.
The vstest.executionengine.exe is restarted only when we detect a change in the configuration between two consecutive test runs. This helps ensure we aren't taking a perf hit on process restarts unnecessarily.
Product Update
With VS2013 we have a new menu item under Test -> Test Settings called "Keep Test Execution Engine Running". You can uncheck this to opt out of the default behavior.
I worked around this by using the following as a pre-build event on the affected test projects:
for 64-bit:
taskkill /F /IM vstest.executionengine.exe /FI "MEMUSAGE gt 1"
or for 32-bit:
taskkill /F /IM vstest.executionengine.x86.exe /FI "MEMUSAGE gt 1"
This silently kills the execution engine before building the test project. The /FI "MEMUSAGE gt 1" stops the command (and therefore the build) from failing if the execution engine isn't running.
For what its worth, I ran into this same situation and it turned out that I had a test that did not properly clean up all of its resources. In my specific case there was a background thread with a network connection open that did not get closed before the test exited. Not sure why exiting the test did not close this for me, but when i fixed my code to properly dispose of all the resources I opened, everything worked as expected. I did not have to add any hacks to kill the vstest.executionengine.exe, nor did I have to opt out of Test -> Test Settings -> Keep Test Execution Engine Running
I had this issue when running test using Resharper's test runner which doesn't seem to respect the Test-->Test Settings-->Keep Test Execution Engine Running setting. In my case it was causing the build to fail with the following error:
warning MSB3026: Could not copy "...\SQLite.Interop.dll" to "bin\Debug\x86\SQLite.Interop.dll". Beginning retry 10 in 1000ms. The process cannot access the file 'bin\Debug\x86\SQLite.Interop.dll' because it is being used by another process.
Adding a pre-build event to the test project as #HappyCat suggested worked for me. I also needed to wrap it in an if statement to prevent it from running on the build server and interfering with other jobs.
if $(ConfigurationName) == Debug (
echo "attempting to kill vstest to prevent access denied on sqlite.interop.dll"
taskkill /F /IM vstest.executionengine.x86.exe /FI "MEMUSAGE gt 1"
)
I know this is old but I thought I'd throw in something I just discovered.
A test I was running had some objects in it that implemented IDisposable, so the code analysis told me so should my test class. It took a while to realize it, but when this.Dispose(); was getting called on the implementation of that interface when I put it on my test class, it was actually throwing a StackOverflow exception. So I just yanked the interface and let CA continue to whine.
I did not need to toggle 'Keep Test Execution Engine Running'.
The easiest approach is to go to windows task manager. Look out for vstest.executionengine.exe process running in the background. Kill that process and it should work fine now.