How do I test my Guild file?

[copah]

I know guild has support for some testing and checks of the guild file setup. I just can’t find the documentation for it.

Ideally I would like to have some unit tests running that tests that the guild.yml is correctly setup and that some of the operations and models works as expected.

[garrett]

You’re right - the docs are missing for this. I created a hot-to article.

Test your Guild file

You can test your Guild file by creating an operation that uses steps to run the operations you’d like to test. Steps support various checks that Guild performs to validate run output. When testing your operations, it’s a good idea to use flag values to keep run time to a minimum. In some cases you may want to modify your scripts to support flags that indicate “test mode” or “run quickly” mode. When creating test operations, you can an underscore prefix with the operation name to indicate the …