# Testing
 
 This document contains the Moby code testing guidelines. It should answer any 
 questions you may have as an aspiring Moby contributor.
 
 ## Test suites
 
 Moby has two test suites (and one legacy test suite):
 
 * Unit tests - use standard `go test` and

   [gotest.tools/assert](https://godoc.org/gotest.tools/assert) assertions. They are located in

   the package they test. Unit tests should be fast and test only their own 
   package.
 * API integration tests - use standard `go test` and

   [gotest.tools/assert](https://godoc.org/gotest.tools/assert) assertions. They are located in

   `./integration/<component>` directories, where `component` is: container,
   image, volume, etc. These tests perform HTTP requests to an API endpoint and
   check the HTTP response and daemon state after the call.
 
 The legacy test suite `integration-cli/` is deprecated. No new tests will be 
 added to this suite. Any tests in this suite which require updates should be 
 ported to either the unit test suite or the new API integration test suite.
 
 ## Writing new tests
 
 Most code changes will fall into one of the following categories.
 
 ### Writing tests for new features
 
 New code should be covered by unit tests. If the code is difficult to test with
 a unit tests then that is a good sign that it should be refactored to make it
 easier to reuse and maintain. Consider accepting unexported interfaces instead
 of structs so that fakes can be provided for dependencies.
 
 If the new feature includes a completely new API endpoint then a new API 
 integration test should be added to cover the success case of that endpoint.
 
 If the new feature does not include a completely new API endpoint consider 
 adding the new API fields to the existing test for that endpoint. A new 
 integration test should **not** be added for every new API field or API error 
 case. Error cases should be handled by unit tests.
 
 ### Writing tests for bug fixes
 
 Bugs fixes should include a unit test case which exercises the bug.
 
 A bug fix may also include new assertions in an existing integration tests for the
 API endpoint.
 

 ### Integration tests environment considerations
 
 When adding new tests or modifying existing test under `integration/`, testing 
 environment should be properly considered. `skip.If` from 
 [gotest.tools/skip](https://godoc.org/gotest.tools/skip) can be used to make the 
 test run conditionally. Full testing environment conditions can be found at 
 [environment.go](https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/cb37987ee11655ed6bbef663d245e55922354c68/internal/test/environment/environment.go)
 
 Here is a quick example. If the test needs to interact with a docker daemon on 
 the same host, the following condition should be checked within the test code
 
 ```go
 skip.If(t, testEnv.IsRemoteDaemon())
 // your integration test code
 ```
 
 If a remote daemon is detected, the test will be skipped.
 

 ## Running tests
 

 ### Unit Tests
 

 To run the unit test suite:
 
 ```
 make test-unit
 ```
 
 or `hack/test/unit` from inside a `BINDDIR=. make shell` container or properly
 configured environment.
 
 The following environment variables may be used to run a subset of tests:
 
 * `TESTDIRS` - paths to directories to be tested, defaults to `./...`
 * `TESTFLAGS` - flags passed to `go test`, to run tests which match a pattern
   use `TESTFLAGS="-test.run TestNameOrPrefix"`
 

 ### Integration Tests
 

 To run the integration test suite:
 
 ```
 make test-integration
 ```

 This make target runs both the "integration" suite and the "integration-cli"
 suite.
 
 You can specify which integration test dirs to build and run by specifying
 the list of dirs in the TEST_INTEGRATION_DIR environment variable.
 
 You can also explicitly skip either suite by setting (any value) in
 TEST_SKIP_INTEGRATION and/or TEST_SKIP_INTEGRATION_CLI environment variables.
 
 Flags specific to each suite can be set in the TESTFLAGS_INTEGRATION and
 TESTFLAGS_INTEGRATION_CLI environment variables.
 
 If all you want is to specity a test filter to run, you can set the
 `TEST_FILTER` environment variable. This ends up getting passed directly to `go
 test -run` (or `go test -check-f`, dpenending on the test suite). It will also
 automatically set the other above mentioned environment variables accordingly.
 
 ### Go Version
 

 You can change a version of golang used for building stuff that is being tested
 by setting `GO_VERSION` variable, for example:
 
 ```

 make GO_VERSION=1.12.8 test

 ```