BuildWise CT Server in Docker

Set up a BuildWise Continuous Testing server in a Docker container.

BuildWise is a free and open-source Continuous Testing server. I have used it in the past for uni and intern work. Running BuildWise in a Docker container may be helpful as you can skip all the manual set-up steps yourself. This article shows how to start up a BuildWise CT server in a Docker container.

Dockerfile’s Steps

1. Use Docker’s base image: ruby
   It comes with Debian Linux and Ruby pre-installed.
2. Download and unzip BuildWise to a specific folder
   In this case, I unzipped BuildWise to /var/www/sinatra.
3. Install the gems (libraries) required by BuildWise server
   Run bundle install.
4. Start the BuildWise server
   I am running the server on container port 80.
5. For demo purposes, I’ve cloned a test project from Github
   Cloned the project to ~/work/projects/buildwise-samples
6. Start the BuildWise server when the container starts

Build & Run the container

docker build -f Dockerfile . -t "buildwise"; 
docker run -it -d -p 80:80 --name buildwise buildwise

It will take about one minute to build, then the BuildWise server will be up and running on http://localhost.

BuildWise Server running in docker

For the use of BuildWise, check out its documentation or the book: Practical Continuous Testing.

After logging in (default credentials: admin/buildwise), I create a new demo project.

Select demo “API Testing (Ruby)”

After the build project is created, click the “Build Now” button to trigger a run of the automated API tests. Here is a build report for the sample API project.

Complete Dockerfile

FROM ruby

EXPOSE 80/tcp

RUN apt-get update -qq \
  && apt-get install -y build-essential \
  && mkdir -p /var/www/sinatra \
  && curl http://agileway.com.au/sites/testwisely/downloads/buildwise/buildwise-2.1.1.zip --output /var/www/sinatra/buildwise-2.1.1.zip \
  && cd /var/www/sinatra \
  && unzip /var/www/sinatra/buildwise-2.1.1.zip \
  && mkdir -p /var/www/sinatra/shared \
  && echo "abcde12345" > /var/www/sinatra/shared/server.digest \
  && cd /var/www/sinatra \
  && ln -s buildwise-2.1.1 buildwise \
  && cd /var/www/sinatra/buildwise \
  && bundle install \
  && sed -i 's/3618/80/' startup-demo.sh \
  && mkdir -p ~/work/projects \
  && git clone https://github.com/testwisely/buildwise-samples.git ~/work/projects/buildwise-samples

WORKDIR /var/www/sinatra/buildwise
CMD ./startup-demo.sh

Final Considerations

The sample test I used above was an API test. If you want to run functional end-to-end UI tests, then you need to install Chrome and its matching Chromedriver.