vmware-nsx/neutron/tests/post_mortem_debug.py
Maru Newby 2c6bb6e8d7 Add post-mortem debug option for tests
Post-mortem debugging, the ability to drop into a debugger with the
execution state that triggered the exception, is very useful in
diagnosing failure conditions.  Our previous test runner, nose,
provided the ability to enable post-mortem debugging on test
failures (via --pdb-failure) and errors (via --pdb).  testr
lacks these options at present, so this change adds support
for enabling post-mortem debugging via an environment variable.
All test-triggered exceptions will result in a post-mortem debugger
being invoked if OS_POST_MORTEM_DEBUG is set to "1" or "True".

Implements: blueprint neutron-pm-debug-on-test-failure
Change-Id: Iddbe1335b059d062c0286df2ad27aef7728461b7
2013-12-10 03:56:50 +00:00

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import pdb
import traceback
def exception_handler(exc_info):
"""Exception handler enabling post-mortem debugging.
A class extending testtools.TestCase can add this handler in setUp():
self.addOnException(post_mortem_debug.exception_handler)
When an exception occurs, the user will be dropped into a pdb
session in the execution environment of the failure.
Frames associated with the testing framework are excluded so that
the post-mortem session for an assertion failure will start at the
assertion call (e.g. self.assertTrue) rather than the framework code
that raises the failure exception (e.g. the assertTrue method).
"""
tb = exc_info[2]
ignored_traceback = get_ignored_traceback(tb)
if ignored_traceback:
tb = FilteredTraceback(tb, ignored_traceback)
traceback.print_exception(exc_info[0], exc_info[1], tb)
pdb.post_mortem(tb)
def get_ignored_traceback(tb):
"""Retrieve the first traceback of an ignored trailing chain.
Given an initial traceback, find the first traceback of a trailing
chain of tracebacks that should be ignored. The criteria for
whether a traceback should be ignored is whether its frame's
globals include the __unittest marker variable. This criteria is
culled from:
unittest.TestResult._is_relevant_tb_level
For example:
tb.tb_next => tb0.tb_next => tb1.tb_next
- If no tracebacks were to be ignored, None would be returned.
- If only tb1 was to be ignored, tb1 would be returned.
- If tb0 and tb1 were to be ignored, tb0 would be returned.
- If either of only tb or only tb0 was to be ignored, None would
be returned because neither tb or tb0 would be part of a
trailing chain of ignored tracebacks.
"""
# Turn the traceback chain into a list
tb_list = []
while tb:
tb_list.append(tb)
tb = tb.tb_next
# Find all members of an ignored trailing chain
ignored_tracebacks = []
for tb in reversed(tb_list):
if '__unittest' in tb.tb_frame.f_globals:
ignored_tracebacks.append(tb)
else:
break
# Return the first member of the ignored trailing chain
if ignored_tracebacks:
return ignored_tracebacks[-1]
class FilteredTraceback(object):
"""Wraps a traceback to filter unwanted frames."""
def __init__(self, tb, filtered_traceback):
"""Constructor.
:param tb: The start of the traceback chain to filter.
:param filtered_traceback: The first traceback of a trailing
chain that is to be filtered.
"""
self._tb = tb
self.tb_lasti = self._tb.tb_lasti
self.tb_lineno = self._tb.tb_lineno
self.tb_frame = self._tb.tb_frame
self._filtered_traceback = filtered_traceback
@property
def tb_next(self):
tb_next = self._tb.tb_next
if tb_next and tb_next != self._filtered_traceback:
return FilteredTraceback(tb_next, self._filtered_traceback)