README.md

Introduction

This folder contains backend integration tests that rely on a mock LLM. It serves two purposes:

1. Ensure the quality of development, including OpenDevin framework and agents.
2. Help contributors learn the workflow of OpenDevin, and examples of real interactions with (powerful) LLM, without spending real money.

Why don't we launch an open-source model, e.g. LLAMA3? There are two reasons:

1. LLMs cannot guarantee determinism, meaning the test behavior might change.
2. CI machines are not powerful enough to run any LLM that is sophisticated enough to finish the tasks defined in tests.

Note: integration tests are orthogonal to evaluations/benchmarks as they serve different purposes. Although benchmarks could also capture bugs, some of which may not be caught by tests, benchmarks require real LLMs which are non-deterministic and costly. We run integration test suite for every single commit, which is not possible with benchmarks.

Known limitations:

1. To avoid the potential impact of non-determinism, we remove all special characters when doing the comparison. If two prompts for the same task only differ in non-alphanumeric characters, a wrong mock response might be picked up.
2. It is required that everything has to be deterministic. For example, agent must not use randomly generated numbers.

The folder is organised as follows:

├── README.md
├── conftest.py
├── mock
│   ├── [AgentName]
│   │   └── [TestName]
│   │       ├── prompt_*.log
│   │       ├── response_*.log
└── [TestFiles].py

where conftest.py defines the infrastructure needed to load real-world LLM prompts and responses for mocking purpose. Prompts and responses generated during real runs of agents with real LLMs are stored under mock/AgentName/TestName folders.

Run Integration Tests

Take a look at run-integration-tests.yml to learn how integration tests are launched in CI environment. You can also simply run:

TEST_ONLY=true ./tests/integration/regenerate.sh

to run all integration tests until the first failure.

Regenerate Integration Tests

When you make changes to an agent's prompt, the integration tests will fail. You'll need to regenerate them by running the following command from project root directory:

./tests/integration/regenerate.sh

Note that this will:

1. Run existing tests first. If a test passes, then no regeneration would happen.
2. Regenerate the prompts, but attempt to use existing responses from LLM (if any). For example, if you only fix a typo in the prompt, it shouldn't affect LLM's behaviour. If we rerun OpenDevin against a real LLM, then due to LLM's non-deterministic nature, a series of different prompts and responses will be generated, causing a lot of unnecessary diffs and is hard to review. If you want to skip this step, see below sections.
3. Rerun the failed test again. If it succeeds, continue to the next test or agent. If it fails again, goto next step.
4. Rerun OpenDevin against a real LLM, record all prompts and responses, and replace the existing test artifacts (if any).
5. Rerun the failed test again. If it succeeds, continue to the next test or agent. If it fails again, abort the script.

Note that step 4 calls real LLM_MODEL only for failed tests that cannot be fixed by regenerating prompts alone, but it still costs money! If you don't want to cover the cost, ask one of the maintainers to regenerate for you. Before asking, please try running the script first without setting LLM_API_KEY. Chance is the test could be fixed after step 2.

Regenerate a Specific Agent and/or Test

If you only want to run a specific test, set environment variable ONLY_TEST_NAME to the test name. If you only want to run a specific agent, set environment variable ONLY_TEST_AGENT to the agent. You could also use both, e.g.

ONLY_TEST_NAME="test_write_simple_script" ONLY_TEST_AGENT="MonologueAgent" ./tests/integration/regenerate.sh

Force Regenerate with real LLM

Sometimes, step 2 would fix the broken test by simply reusing existing responses from LLM. This may not be what you want - for example, you might have greatly improved the prompt that you believe LLM will do better jobs using fewer steps, or you might have added a new action type and you think LLM would be able to use the new type. In this case you can skip step 2 and run OpenDevin against a real LLM. Simply set FORCE_USE_LLM environmental variable to true, or run the script like this:

FORCE_USE_LLM=true ./tests/integration/regenerate.sh

Note: FORCE_USE_LLM doesn't take effect if all tests are passing. If you want to regenerate regardless, you could remove everything under tests/integration/mock/[agent]/[test_name] folder.

Known Issues

Sometimes you might see transient errors like pexpect.pxssh.ExceptionPxssh: Could not establish connection to host. The regenerate.sh script doesn't know this is a transient error and would still regenerate the test artifacts. You could simply terminate the script by ctrl+c and rerun the script.

The test framework cannot handle non-determinism. If anything in the prompt (including observed result after executing an action) is non-deterministic (e.g. a PID), the test would fail. In this case, you might want to change conftest.py to filter out numbers or any other known patterns when matching prompts for your test.

Write a new Integration Test

To write an integration test, there are essentially two steps:

1. Decide your task prompt, and the result you want to verify.
2. Add your prompt to ./regenerate.sh

NOTE: If your agent decide to support user-agent interaction via natural language (e.g., you will prompted to enter user resposes when running the above main.py command), you should create a file named tests/integration/mock/<AgentName>/<TestName>/user_responses.log containing all the responses in order you provided to the agent, delimited by newline ('\n'). This will be used to mock the STDIN during testing.

That's it, you are good to go! When you launch an integration test, mock responses are loaded and used to replace a real LLM, so that we get deterministic and consistent behavior, and most importantly, without spending real money.