What touched

This is a small application, which will check/analyse your code and will try to fetch the features, which were touched by your changes. These results can be used during the manual testing of your product.

How it works

You define the path where application need to check the files. It goes through all files in the path and tries to find the @featureType annotation. It collects all results and then it runs git diff to compare selected branches. After that, based on the output of git diff it decides what kind of features can be potentially touched by your changes.

Requirements

• git - it will be used for branches compare and diff retrieving
• fetch the destination branch before the wt command run

How to install

1. Download the last binary file for your system. You can download from here, or using cmd. Here an example of downloading for linux system via cmd, using curl:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sharovik/wt/master/bin/wt-linux-amd64 -o ./bin/wt

2. Give executable permissions for the binary file. Here an example of command for linux system:

chmod +x ./bin/wt

How to use

In your code, please define the feature by writing of @featureType {YOUR FEATURE NAME} comment.

<?php

/**
 * @featureType test functionality
 */
function firstFunction() {
    //Some code here
}

You could also define the project using @project {DEPENDENCY_NAME} annotation, which uses this particular change. Here is an example:

<?php

/**
 * @project dependency
 */
function firstFunction() {
    //Some code here
}

If you have more than 1 dependency, you can define them all using comma

/**
 * @project dependency1,dependency2
 */

Run the command to find the touched files:

CURRENT_BRANCH=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD) && git fetch origin master:refs/origin/master
./bin/wt -fileExt=.php -workingBranch=$CURRENT_BRANCH -destinationBranch=origin/master

Then you will see the output:

Available command args

• destinationBranch (string) Destination branch with which we will compare selected working branch. (default "master")
• fileExt (string) The type of extension of the files which we need to check. If no extension selected, then it will go through all files. Example: .php
• path (string) The absolute path to your directory where need to search the features. (default ".")
• pathToIgnoreFile (string) The path to file, where line-by-line written the list of paths which should be ignored. Default it's: .gitignore (default ".gitignore")
• vcs (string) The type of vcs which will be used for retrieving diff information. (default "git")
• workingBranch (string) Working branch which will be compared with the destination branch.
• displayTemplate (string) The view which will be used for display results. Default is: features. Available types of views: full, features
• ignoreFromAnalysis (string) The list of folders/files comma-separated, which will be ignored during the code analysis. Default is: tests
• maxAnalysisDepth (int) The maximum analysis code depth will be used during the code usage analysing. Default is: 2
• withToBeChecked (bool) Display or not the files which needs to be covered by features annotation. Default is: false
• version (bool) To display the current version of the application

Supported languages

Currently, the application supports all languages where it's possible to define the annotations like #@featureType test or //@featureType test or even /* @featureType test */!

Code analysis

Based on file extension which you define in fileExt, the application will run not only the check for @featureType annotation, but the code analyse for search of other potential touched places. The code analyse currently works only for .php extension.

Supported platforms

You can find this information in Supported OS section of project build documentation.

How to build

See the project build documentation

Where can be used

You can add it, for example, as step in your pipelines. So the QA engineer will see the results of application output and based on them will build the testing plan.