Open Telemetry Auto Instrumentation's minimal supported version is java 8. All jar files that we produce, unless noted otherwise, have bytecode compatibility with the java 8 runtime. Our test suite is executed against java 8, all LTS versions and the latest non-LTS version.
Some libraries that we auto-instrument may have higher minimal requirements. In these cases, we compile and test the corresponding auto-instrumentation with higher java versions as required by the libraries. The resulting classes will have a higher bytecode level, but since it will match the library's java version, no runtime problems arise.
Executing ./gradlew instrumentation:test
will run tests for all supported
auto-instrumentations using that java version which runs the Gradle build
itself. These tests usually use the minimal supported version of the
instrumented library.
We run all tests on Java 21
by default, along with Java 8, 11, 17, and 23. To run on
a specific version, set the testJavaVersion
gradle property to the desired major
version, e.g., ./gradlew test -PtestJavaVersion=8
, ./gradlew test -PtestJavaVersion=23
.
If you don't have a JDK of these versions installed, Gradle will automatically download
it for you.
This is done as part of the nightly build in order to catch when a new version of a library is released that breaks our instrumentation tests.
To run these tests locally, add -PtestLatestDeps=true
to your existing gradlew
command line.
Executing ./gradlew :instrumentation:<INSTRUMENTATION_NAME>:test --tests <TEST FILE NAME>
will run only the selected test.
During local development, you may want to ignore lint warnings when running tests.
To ignore warnings, formatting issues, or other non-fatal issues in tests, use
./gradlew test -Ddev=true -x spotlessCheck -x checkstyleMain
The dev
flag will ignore warnings in tests.
The smoke tests are not run as part of a global test
task since they take a long time and are
not relevant for most contributions. Explicitly specify :smoke-tests:test
to run them.
If you need to run a specific smoke test suite:
./gradlew :smoke-tests:test -PsmokeTestSuite=payara
If you are on Windows and you want to run the tests using linux containers:
USE_LINUX_CONTAINERS=1 ./gradlew :smoke-tests:test -PsmokeTestSuite=payara
If you want to run a specific smoke test:
./gradlew :smoke-tests:test --tests '*SpringBootSmokeTest*'
Smoke tests for the OpenTelemetry Spring starter
can be executed in a JVM (./gradlew smoke-tests-otel-starter:test
) or as Spring Native tests (./gradlew smoke-tests-otel-starter:nativeTest
).
To execute all the instrumentation tests runnable as GraalVM native executables:
./gradlew nativeTest
A Github workflow executes the native tests every day.
Some of the instrumentation tests (and all of the smoke tests) spin up docker containers via
testcontainers. If you run out of space, you may wish to prune
old containers, images and volumes using docker system prune --volumes
.
For some container environments, such as rootless Podman or a remotely hosted Docker, testcontainers may need additional configuration to successfully run the tests. The following environment variables can be used for configuration:
TESTCONTAINERS_DOCKER_SOCKET_OVERRIDE
- The location of the Docker socket on the host. Default is/var/run/docker.sock
TESTCONTAINERS_HOST_OVERRIDE
- The hostname used for container-to-container communication. Default Docker islocalhost
, but rootless Podman useshost.containers.internal
See Troubleshooting CI Test Failures for common issues and solutions.
For information on debugging tests or instrumentation, see Debugging.