Cpspec is a framework which allows behaviour driven development for chef cookbooks/Puppet Manifests. It enables testing of the cookbooks on the local box. The same test then can be executed on Target machine. It is a vagrant extension. Use vagrant to apply cookbook on the local environment and then run test to assert if desired changes are applied.

• Install vagrant. Installation instructions can be found here.(vagrantup.com/docs/getting-started/index.html)

gem install cpsec

• Write test for the cook books

require 'test/unit'
class TestJavaCookbook
  def test_java_installed_in_correct_path
    assert_true File.exists?("/usr/bin/java")
  end
end

• Specify the test directory path (Absolute or relative)

Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
 config.test.directory = "env-test"
 config.vm.define :dev do |conf|
  conf.vm.box = "lucid32"
  conf.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
   chef.cookbooks_path = "chef-repo/cookbooks"
   chef.add_recipe "java"
  end
 end
end

• Run tests

vagrant run_test

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