staging

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Staging environment

Note: Transferred from old Wiki page; to be updated as per new developments.

Purpose and public

Testnet is this network and is used by developers, QA/security engineers and community testers. Manged by the Product Owner.

CI/CD stages

Branch: staging branch, created from developby freezing features scheduled for release;

CI/CD pipeline runs the following stages automatically as well as manually where required:

• static analysis;

• unit tests;

• static security tests;

• build (if needed by the feature);

• functional tests / API tests (if needed by the feature);

• security tests

• regression tests

• performance and load tests

• live security tests

Architecture

The Staging environment contains:

• virtual machines and containers hosted in NuNet cloud servers

• machines owned by NuNet and NuNet team members

• extensive network of community testers' machines/devices provided via NuNet Network private testers, covering all possible configurations of the network and most closely resembling the actual NuNet network in production:

  • with different hardware devices

  • owned by separate individuals and entities

  • connected to internet by different means:

    • having IP addresses

    • behind different NAT types

    • having different internet speeds

    • having different stability of connection

    • etc

Triggering schedule

Testing on staging environment is triggered manually as per platform life-cycle and release schedule. When the staging branch is created from develop branch with the frozen features ready for release, the following actions are performed:

1. The staging environment / testnet is constructed by inviting community testers to join their machines in order to cover architecture described above;

2. All applications are deployed on the network (as needed) in preparation for automatic and manual regression testing and load testing;

3. Manual testing schedule is released and communicated to community testers;

4. CI/CD pipelsine is triggered with all automatic tests and manual tests;

5. Bug reports are collected and resolved;

6. Manual tests resulting in bugs are automated and included into CI/CD pipeline;

The above cycle is repeated until no bugs are observed. When this happens, the staging branch is marked for release into production environment.