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title: "Resolution 022"
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- Topic: Budget 10: Abra integration suite automation
- Date: 04-04-2024
- Deadline: 18-04-2024
- Size: Large

### Summary

Motivated by the collective release planning:
[`#583`](https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/organising/issues/583) under
"Automate Integration Test Suite".

The latest `abra` release (`0.9.x`) was heavily delayed due to several issues.
One of those was the need to fix the integration test suite which wasn't run in
some time. Many breakages had crept into the test suite over time. This can
avoided in the future by automating the running of the integration test suite.

This proposal describes a way to do this and includes a budget for doing so.

### Details (Budget 10)

The `abra` test suite takes around 1.30 hrs to run on a modest machine.
Therefore, we propose to run it only once daily. Some parts of the tests are
slow, fast and only a few require public DNS. This means we can break up the
tests and run them in separate "builds" to speed things up. This involves some
research & experimentation.

A server has been provided by `@mirsal` on donation (💘). This machine will be
be wiped clean each day (`docker <command> prune ....`) and will have the usual
DNS machinery attached to it, e.g. `int.coopcloud.tech`, `*.int.coopcloud.tech`.

Once that is all wired up, we can implement the CI/CD configuration to make the
test suite run automatically once a day. This will be triggered via the
`.drone.yml` in the `abra` Git repository.

Budget details:

| Item | Cost | Who? |
| ---- | ---- | ---- |
| Server | Free (on donation) | `@mirsal` |
| Server setup & docs | 1 hour | `@d1` |
| R & D for breaking up tests | 5 hours | `@d1` | 
| Implementing CI/CD configs | 10 hours | `@d1` |

**Total: 16 hrs * 20 EUR = 320 EUR**