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Integration Tests

Emulator-backed integration tests are the standard path for exercising Spanner repository semantics, Pub/Sub publish and delivery round-trips, and Firebase token flows. Mocked database unit tests still cover pure logic, but they are not sufficient for repository families or service-boundary behavior.

This runbook covers:

  • the Bazel tag convention that distinguishes integration tests from unit tests
  • how to run the suite locally
  • the nightly CI job that runs the suite against an emulator once per day

Test-Tag Convention​

Every emulator-backed integration test must carry the Bazel-level manual tag on its gateway_kt_test target:

gateway_kt_test(
    name = "customer_repository_spanner_integration_test",
    tags = ["manual"],
    # ...
)

Optional additional tags already in use:

  • critical-path for tests that also run under the PR critical-path gate
  • cert for certification-lane tests excluded from the nightly manual suite

manual is load-bearing for two reasons. It keeps the test out of bazel test //... on laptops without a running emulator, and the nightly workflow resolves the manual-test set with bazel query.

There is no repo-wide integration Bazel tag today. Some suites use JUnit-level @Tag("integration") for JUnit Platform filtering inside a single gateway_kt_test target, but that tag does not drive Bazel target selection.

When SPANNER_EMULATOR_HOST is unset, each test should use Assumptions.assumeTrue(...) to skip cleanly. Tests extending SpannerEmulatorTestBase inherit this behavior from //libs/spanner-test-harness.

Run Locally​

Start the Spanner emulator:

bash infra/scripts/start-spanner-emulator.sh

For the full local stack, use:

./scripts/dev.sh services

Run the whole nightly manual suite:

bazel test $(bazel query \
  'tests(//services/... + //libs/...) intersect attr(tags, "manual", //services/... + //libs/...) except attr(tags, "cert", //services/... + //libs/...)') \
  --local_test_jobs=1

--test_tag_filters=manual //... alone does not select manual targets because Bazel excludes manual targets from wildcard expansion before tag filters run. Use the bazel query ... | bazel test shape above.

Run one repository family in isolation:

bazel test //services/processing:customer_repository_spanner_integration_test

Stop the emulator:

pkill -f 'spanner_emulator_main' || true

Shared Harness​

New Spanner-backed tests should extend com.myriad.gateway.spannertestharness.SpannerEmulatorTestBase from //libs/spanner-test-harness. The base class owns:

  • PGAdapter lifecycle with one port per test
  • schema bootstrap through SQLDelight
  • per-test truncation of user tables
  • a shared GatewayDatabase handle

Processing keeps seed helpers in SpannerRepositoryIntegrationHarness for tests that need preloaded organization, location, or credential rows. Other services use the shared base directly.

Nightly CI​

The BuildBuddy Nightly manual integration action runs every day at 07:00 UTC:

  1. Starts cloud-spanner-emulator through infra/scripts/start-spanner-emulator.sh.
  2. Resolves manual-tagged test targets with bazel query, excluding cert-tagged certification tests.
  3. Gives each target an isolated emulator database and runs targets serially with test-result caching disabled.
  4. Uploads a sanitized target/result summary. BuildBuddy retains native Bazel test logs on the invocation.
  5. Posts a commit status that the GitHub reporter converts into a nightly-failure issue when the suite fails.

The separate BuildBuddy Android consumer smoke schedule validates the public Android and NearPay artifacts so SDK-surface regressions retain an independent failure signal and artifact bundle.

Adding A Repository Family​

  1. Add the integration test under services/{service}/src/test/kotlin/.../integration/, extending SpannerEmulatorTestBase.
  2. Wire it into services/{service}/BUILD.bazel with gateway_kt_test and tags = ["manual"]. Add critical-path only when it must run in the PR critical-path gate.
  3. Run it locally against the emulator.
  4. Let the scheduled BuildBuddy action pick it up automatically.

Known Limitations​

None currently. Two ON CONFLICT queries in the schema previously did not parse through Spanner PGAdapter:

  • libs/schema/.../ProvisioningJobStep.sq used a null-filtered unique index as the conflict target -- fixed by replacing the ON CONFLICT (job_id, step) DO UPDATE with an update-then-insert in ProvisioningJobStepRepository.upsert (same pattern as WebhookEventRepository.insertIfAbsent).
  • libs/schema/.../CheckoutSessionPromotion.sq used target-less ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING -- fixed by naming the (session_id, promotion_code_id) PRIMARY KEY columns explicitly as the arbiter.

Both are covered by emulator-backed tests (ProvisioningJobRepositorySpannerIntegrationTest.provisioningJobStepUpsertInsertsThenUpdatesSameJobIdAndStep and CheckoutSessionRepositorySpannerIntegrationTest.checkoutSessionPromotionInsertIsIdempotentOnConflict).

The same null-filtered-index restriction also applies to idempotency_keys (IdempotencyKey.sq) -- its bare ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING was fixed the same way, by naming the (scope, key, client_id) PRIMARY KEY columns explicitly.