The OpenActive Test Suite consists of two projects:
openactive-broker-microservice - harvests feeds and provides an interface to extract specific items from the feeds.
openactive-integration-tests - a suite of Jest integration tests that exercise an Open Booking API implementation.
Clone the test suite repository locally, and install its dependencies.
Node.js version 12 or above is required.
git clone [email protected]:openactive/openactive-test-suite.gitcd openactive-test-suitenpm install
You can check that the test suite works in your local environment by running it against the hosted OpenActive Reference Implementation, simply by using the default configuration:
npm start
The list of Open Booking API features supported by the test suite can be found in the Test Suite Feature Coverage page.
For each optional feature, assess whether or not your implementation will include this.
Configure the test suite accordingly, as detailed in the reference documentation, for example:
./packages/openactive-integration-tests/config/default.json (extract)"implementedFeatures": {"opportunity-feed": true,"dataset-site": true,"availability-check": true,...}
Note that not all Open Booking API features are currently supported by the test suite. For a list of supported features, please see the Test Suite Feature Coverage page.
Set up the Opportunity Types that your booking system will support, as detailed in the reference documentation. The test suite will only attempt to book opportunity types that are configured here, for example:
./packages/openactive-integration-tests/config/default.json (extract)"bookableOpportunityTypesInScope": {"ScheduledSession": true,"FacilityUseSlot": false,"IndividualFacilityUseSlot": false,"CourseInstance": false,"CourseInstanceSubEvent": false,"HeadlineEvent": false,"HeadlineEventSubEvent": false,"Event": false,"OnDemandEvent": false},
Choose which testing strategy to use. You can always start with one and switch to the other later.
./packages/openactive-integration-tests/config/default.json (extract)"useRandomOpportunities": true
Selects random opportunities from the feeds that match the prerequisite criteria for each test, to book opportunities that already exist in the booking system
If using random mode, you must ensure that enough opportunities exist that cover the required criteria for all features that you are implementing. See the features list for a summary of how many opportunities are required for each criteria to test a specific feature. Please note that opportunities are not reused between tests within the same run of the test suite.
It is often straightforward to use Random mode for the more general features such as those in the core
category. More specific features, that have more selective criteria for their opportunities, generally benefit from using Controlled mode.
./packages/openactive-integration-tests/config/default.json (extract)"useRandomOpportunities": false
Automatically creates new opportunities in the booking system before each test run.
In order to enable controlled testing, you must implement the OpenActive Test Interface within your booking system. This interface allows the test suite to create opportunities that conform to specific criteria.
Your implementation of the OpenActive Test Interface itself can be tested using the test-interface feature.
The testDatasetIdentifier
setting is used in all calls in the test interface. It allows any test data that was created with this identifier to be cleared before a new test run begins.
The test suite will making all bookings under a specific primary
Seller provided in the configuration, using the authentication request headers provided for that Seller.
If your booking system only supports a single seller, only the “primary
” seller is required. If your booking system supports multiple sellers, the “secondary
” seller must also be set to support the “multiple-sellers” tests.
See the reference documentation for more information.
./packages/openactive-integration-tests/config/default.json (extract)"sellers": {"primary": {"@type": "Organization","@id": "https://bookingsystemreferenceimplementation.azurewebsites.net/api/identifiers/sellers/0","requestHeaders": {"X-OpenActive-Test-Client-Id": "test","X-OpenActive-Test-Seller-Id": "https://bookingsystemreferenceimplementation.azurewebsites.net/api/identifiers/sellers/0"}},"secondary": {"@type": "Person","@id": "https://bookingsystemreferenceimplementation.azurewebsites.net/api/identifiers/sellers/1"}}
Configure the broker microservice with the authentication headers required for the Orders Feed.
Note such authentication must not be specific to any particular seller.
./packages/openactive-broker-microservice/config/default.json (extract)"ordersFeedRequestHeaders": {"X-OpenActive-Test-Client-Id": "test"}
The datasetSiteUrl
must be set to the local dataset site URL of your booking system. If you have not yet implemented a dataset site, details for creating it can be found here.
In addition to the standard dataset site, the JSON-LD of the page must include the accessService
property, as specified in the reference documentation. Note that the endpointURL
within the accessService
is most important, and must refer to your local Open Booking API Base URI.
./packages/openactive-broker-microservice/config/default.json (extract)"datasetSiteUrl": "https://bookingsystemreferenceimplementation.azurewebsites.net/openactive",
With your booking system running, execute the following command in the rootopenactive-test-suite
directory:
npm start
This will automatically start the microservice, run the integration tests, then kill the microservice. The output from the microservice and integration tests will be combined in the console.
Individual features or tests can be run in isolation using the following commands, for example:
npm start -- --runInBand test/features/core/test-interface/
npm start -- --runInBand test/features/core/test-interface/implemented/create-opportunity-test.js
With your booking system running, execute the following command in the openactive-broker-microservice
directory:
npm start
This will start to harvest the feeds from your running application.
With both your booking system and openactive-broker-microservice
running, execute the following command in the openactive-integration-tests
directory, to execute all configured tests:
npm start
This will execute tests against your booking system, using the openactive-broker-microservice
as an intermediary.
Individual features or tests can be run in isolation using the following commands, for example:
npm start -- --runInBand test/features/core/test-interface/
npm start -- --runInBand test/features/core/test-interface/implemented/create-opportunity-test.js
The openactive-integration-tests
writes log files into the ./output/
directory for each test in Markdown format, so you can see the endpoints that have been called, with both the requests sent and responses received.
To understand the requests and responses, please see the explanation in the Open Booking API specification, along with the more detailed sequence diagram and example requests and responses.
If you don't have an IDE that supports Markdown natively, use a Google Chrome extension to read the output Markdown files, as described here.
A reference version of passing test results is also available for comparison, complete with full model requests and responses for each test:
For continuous integration environments run npm start
in the rootopenactive-test-suite
directory. This will automatically start the microservice, run the integration tests, then kill the microservice.
This always overrides the configuration option "waitForHarvestCompletion": true
, to ensure the harvester is up-to-date with the feeds before the tests begin.
A sample CI script is available, and more details can be found here.
You can see CI in action within the test suite itself, which runs CI against the reference implementation.