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OpenTelemetry Store - Add item into the shopping cart

In this use case, we want to validate the following story:

As a consumer
I want to choose a product from the catalog
And add it to my shopping cart
So I can continue to explore the catalog to fulfill my shopping list

You can trigger this use case by calling the endpoint POST /api/cart from the Frontend service, with the following request body:

{
  "item": {
    "productId": "OLJCESPC7Z",
    "quantity": 1
  },
  "userId": "2491f868-88f1-4345-8836-d5d8511a9f83"
}

It should return a payload similar to this:

{
  "userId": "2491f868-88f1-4345-8836-d5d8511a9f83",
  "items": [
    {
      "productId": "OLJCESPC7Z",
      "quantity": 1
    }
  ]
}

Building a Test for This Scenario​

Using Tracetest, we can create a test that will execute an API call on POST /api/cart and validate the following properties:

  • The correct ProductID was sent to the Product Catalog API.
  • The product persisted correctly on the shopping cart.

Traces​

Running these tests for the first time will create an Observability trace like the image below, where you can see spans for the API calls (HTTP and gRPC) and database calls:

Assertions​

With this trace, now we can build assertions on Tracetest and validate the properties:

  • The correct ProductID was sent to the Product Catalog API.

  • The product persisted correctly on the shopping cart.

Now, you can validate this entire use case.

Test Definition​

To replicate this entire test on Tracetest, you can replicate these steps on our Web UI or using our CLI, saving the following test definition as the file test-definition.yml and later running:

tracetest run test -f test-definition.yml

We are assuming that the Frontend service is exposed on http://otel-demo-frontend:8080:

type: Test
spec:
  name: Add product to the cart
  description: Add a selected product to user shopping cart
  trigger:
    type: http
    httpRequest:
      url: http://otel-demo-frontend:8080/api/cart
      method: POST
      headers:
      - key: Content-Type
        value: application/json
      body: '{"item":{"productId":"OLJCESPC7Z","quantity":1},"userId":"2491f868-88f1-4345-8836-d5d8511a9f83"}'
  specs:
  - selector: span[tracetest.span.type="http" name="hipstershop.CartService/AddItem"]
     # checking if the correct ProductID was sent
    assertions:
    - attr:app.product.id = "OLJCESPC7Z"
  - selector: span[tracetest.span.type="database" name="HMSET" db.system="redis" db.redis.database_index="0"]
    # checking if the product was persisted correctly on the shopping cart
    assertions:
    - attr:tracetest.selected_spans.count >= 1