testing-with-a-branch.md

Testing with a branch

Using a remote branch

If you need to run the tests against a branch of an application other than deployed-to-production you need to explicitly build it as below:

$ make -j4 clone pull PUBLISHER_COMMITISH=your_branch
$ docker-compose build publisher
$ make start test-publisher stop

When making changes to an application you will need to rebuild the image before the new version will be used.

$ docker-compose build publisher

When you have finished testing against your branch version and want to switch back to the deployed-to-production version you will need to untag the built image before you can re-pull. The clean_docker make recipe will untag all locally built images.

$ make clean_docker
$ make pull

Using a local branch

If you want to use a local version of an application, symlink your directory into ./apps. For example:

rm -rf apps/publishing-api
ln -s path/to/publishing-api apps/publishing-api