As a developer I need an approach to running integration tests against remote services.

[butler54]

Summary

Trestle is a tool - which means that there are issues with respect to integration testing remote functionality as the remote location is arbitrary.

Remote locations include:

• SFTP
• github
• https with auth.

Initial thoughts

• Create a separate github repo for testing with which contains no confidential content. Trestle maintainers would be given access for their local testing.
• SFTP / HTTPS would be done through an in memory deployment or similar.
• Integration tests would be marked up with annotations in pytest to allow segregation of the integration tests for most usecases.
• Integration test phase could be run together or separately in CI.

[butler54]

@jeffdmgit - I think we need to fix this issue when you have some time.

[butler54]

Looks like Actions supports sidecar containers for workflows which should help with https / sftp, noting we may need to identify or build a basic container (at least set passwords etc.)

• https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-containerized-services/about-service-containers

Github auth will need to be tested by a sample repo. test against a scenario that can easily be replicated (e.g. pulling a README.md).