smoke-test for an Aion Node

Overview

This is a lightweight testing tool developed by Nodesmith. This is an internal tool that we use to monitor the availability of our service.

This tool contains a suite of tests that exercise all support Aion JSON RPC methods, including:

• Reading Network state
• Compiling and delpoying a contract
• Reading data from a contract
• Ensuring events are being emitted

This tool can be configured to send a status message to a Slack channel. See instructions in ./src/constants.js for details.

To setup:

• Run npm install
• Set up environment variables as described in ./src/constants.js.
• Run npm run smoke.

Running smoke test on a schedule

We currently run this suite every hour, and it has been really helpful in identifying early problems with our service.

We recommend using the Heroku Scheduler Addon to achieve a similar setup with minimal effort. But as the test suite is just a simple node.js application with an npm script, you could deploy this in many different environments and enable it to run on a schedule.