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lmxopcua/scripts/e2e
Joseph Doherty 69e1d320ac Cold-start guard for script engines — skip evaluation with empty upstream
Both VirtualTagEngine and ScriptedAlarmEngine share a pattern: the
BuildReadCache helper iterates the script's declared input set, reading
from _valueCache with a fallback to _upstream.ReadTag. When an upstream
tag hasn't yet delivered its first subscription push, ReadTag returns a
DataValueSnapshot with a null Value and BadNotConnected quality. User
scripts then cast `(double)ctx.GetTag(path).Value` unconditionally and
throw NullReferenceException — once per evaluation tick until the cache
fills, spamming the log with identical stack traces. The existing catch
block recovered (kept the prior state) but didn't silence the churn.

Add AreInputsReady(cache) to both engines: return true only when every
entry has a non-null Value and a non-Bad StatusCode (Good + Uncertain
are both considered ready). Skip script evaluation when the check
returns false — the engine holds the prior state (alarm) or the prior
snapshot (virtual tag) until upstream delivers. Eliminates the cold-
start NRE spam at root without changing the script-engine contract.

Also: fix $changeLines.Count in test-galaxy.ps1 — PowerShell's
Set-StrictMode -Version 3.0 errors on .Count when Where-Object returns
0 or 1 items. Wrap in `@(...)` to force an array; same pattern the
sibling _common.ps1 already uses in Write-Summary for the same reason.

Task #112 — the Galaxy live E2E now passes 3/7 stages (probe + source
read + reverse-bridge-ACL). The remaining 4 stages (virtual-tag,
subscribe-sees-change, alarm-fires, history-read) are deployment-
specific: MoveInBatchID is idle in this Galaxy + its AccessLevel blocks
writes + it's not historized. Cold-start behaviour is now correct, so
once the seed points at a live attribute those stages should light up.

Tests: 36/36 VirtualTags.Tests + 47/47 ScriptedAlarms.Tests green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-24 17:43:48 -04:00
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E2E CLI test scripts

End-to-end black-box tests that drive each protocol through its driver CLI and verify the resulting OPC UA address-space state through otopcua-cli. They answer one question per driver:

If I poke the real PLC through the driver, does the running OtOpcUa server see the change?

This is the acceptance gate v1 was missing — the driver-level integration tests (tests/.../IntegrationTests/) confirm the driver sees the PLC, and the OPC UA Client.CLI.Tests confirm the client sees the server — but nothing glued them end-to-end. These scripts close that loop.

Five-stage test per driver

Every per-driver script runs the same five tests. The goal is to prove both directions across the bridge plus subscription delivery — forward-only coverage would miss writable-flag drops, IWritable dispatch bugs, and broken data-change notification paths where a fresh read still returns the right value.

  1. probe — driver CLI opens a session + reads a sentinel. Confirms the simulator / PLC is reachable and speaking the protocol.
  2. Driver loopback — write a random value via the driver CLI, read it back via the same CLI. Confirms the driver round-trips without involving the OPC UA server. A failure here is a driver bug, not a server-bridge bug.
  3. Forward bridge (driver → server → client) — write a different random value via the driver CLI, wait --ServerPollDelaySec (default 3s), read the OPC UA NodeId the server publishes that tag at via otopcua-cli read. Confirms reads propagate from PLC to OPC UA client.
  4. Reverse bridge (client → server → driver) — write a fresh random value via otopcua-cli write against the same NodeId, wait --DriverPollDelaySec (default 3s), read the PLC-side via the driver CLI. Confirms writes propagate the other way — catches writable-flag drops, ACL misconfiguration, and IWritable dispatch bugs the forward test can't see.
  5. Subscribe-sees-change — start otopcua-cli subscribe --duration N in the background, give it --SettleSec (default 2s) to attach, write a random value via the driver CLI, wait for the subscription window to close, and assert the captured output mentions the new value. Confirms the server's monitored-item + data-change path actually fires — not just that a fresh read returns the new value.

The OtOpcUa server must already be running with a config that (a) binds a driver instance to the same PLC the script points at, and (b) publishes the address the script writes under a NodeId the script knows. Those NodeIds live in e2e-config.json (see below). The published tag must be writable — stages 4 + 5 will fail against a read-only tag.

Status

All seven driver factories are registered in src/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Server/Program.cs — Galaxy, FOCAS, Modbus, AB CIP, AB Legacy, S7, TwinCAT. DriverInstanceBootstrapper can materialise any DriverType row from the central Config DB into a live driver. The factory-wiring block that originally gated stages 3-5 is closed.

Live-boot verification:

  • Galaxy — 7/7 stages (read / write / subscribe / alarms / history) against a real Galaxy + OtOpcUaGalaxyHost on this dev box.
  • AB CIP, S7 — 5/5 stages each under task #220 against the ab_server + python-snap7 fixtures.
  • AB Legacy — 5/5 stages under task #222 against ab_server SLC500 / MicroLogix / PLC-5 profiles (requires the cip-path /1,0 workaround for the Docker fixture).
  • Modbus — 5/5 stages against the pymodbus + dl205 profile, including HR[200] scratch register + per-protocol bidirectional + subscribe-sees-change stages.
  • TwinCAT — factory registered; driver features validated against the TCBSD VM virtual-PLC fixture (FreeBSD + TwinCAT/BSD runtime on ESXi — bypasses the Hyper-V/RTIME conflict that blocks XAR on the dev box). TWINCAT_TRUST_WIRE=1 is still required to run the script — false-pass-prevention belt, not an "unverified" flag.
  • FOCAS — factory registered; gated by FOCAS_TRUST_WIRE=1 pending the lab-rig CNC (task #222 follow-up).
  • OpcUaClient (gateway) — eight-stage script (test-opcuaclient.ps1) covers probe / remote read / forward bridge / subscribe / reverse bridge / browse mirror / alarm / history against the opc-plc Docker fixture at opc.tcp://localhost:50000. Reverse-bridge / alarm / history stages are opt-in per the parameter docs (opc-plc's default image has no writable nodes and does not historize).

Remaining work is per-protocol seed authoring: each dev fills in the NodeIds their server publishes under e2e-config.json (sidecar is .gitignore-d; see e2e-config.sample.json for the shape). Admin UI remains the supported path for authoring the matching driver instance rows in the Config DB.

Tracking: umbrella #209 is closed; remaining TwinCAT / FOCAS work tracks under their hardware-fixture tasks (#221 / #222).

Prereqs

  1. OtOpcUa server running on opc.tcp://localhost:4840 (or pass -OpcUaUrl to override). The server's Config DB must define a driver instance per protocol you want to test, bound to the matching simulator endpoint.
  2. Per-driver simulators running. See docs/v2/test-data-sources.md for the simulator matrix — pymodbus / ab_server / python-snap7 / opc-plc cover Modbus / AB / S7 / OPC UA Client. FOCAS and TwinCAT have no public simulator; they are gated with env-var skip flags below. For OpcUaClient, docker compose -f tests/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.OpcUaClient.IntegrationTests/Docker/ docker-compose.yml up -d brings up opc-plc on port 50000.
  3. PowerShell 7+. The runner uses null-coalescing + Set-StrictMode; the Windows-PowerShell-5.1 shell will not parse test-all.ps1.
  4. .NET 10 SDK. Each script either runs dotnet run --project src/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.<Name>.Cli directly, or if $env:OTOPCUA_CLI_BIN points at a publish folder, runs the pre-built otopcua-*.exe from there (faster for repeat loops).

Running

One protocol at a time

./scripts/e2e/test-modbus.ps1 `
  -ModbusHost    127.0.0.1:5502 `
  -BridgeNodeId "ns=2;s=Modbus/HR100"

Every per-protocol script takes the driver endpoint, the address to write, and the OPC UA NodeId the server exposes it at.

Full matrix

./scripts/e2e/test-all.ps1 `
  -ConfigFile ./scripts/e2e/e2e-config.json

The runner reads the sidecar JSON, invokes each driver's script with the parameters from that section, and prints a FINAL MATRIX showing PASS / FAIL / SKIP per driver. Any driver absent from the sidecar is SKIP-ed rather than failing hard — useful on dev boxes that only have one simulator up.

Sidecar format

Copy e2e-config.sample.jsone2e-config.json and fill in the NodeIds from your server's Config DB. The file is .gitignore-d (each dev's NodeIds are specific to their local seed). Omit a driver section to skip it.

Expected pass/fail matrix (default config)

Driver Gate Default state on a clean dev box
Modbus PASS (pymodbus fixture)
AB CIP PASS (ab_server fixture)
AB Legacy PASS (ab_server SLC500/MicroLogix/PLC-5 profiles; /1,0 cip-path required for the Docker fixture)
Galaxy PASS (requires OtOpcUaGalaxyHost + a live Galaxy; 7 stages including alarms + history)
S7 PASS (python-snap7 fixture)
FOCAS FOCAS_TRUST_WIRE=1 SKIP (no public simulator — task #222 lab rig)
TwinCAT TWINCAT_TRUST_WIRE=1 SKIP by default; features validated against the TCBSD VM fixture — set the env var to run
OpcUaClient PASS stages 1-4 + browse (opc-plc Docker fixture); stages 5/7/8 are opt-in (require writable / alarm / historizing upstream)
Phase 7 PASS if the Modbus instance seeds a VT_DoubledHR100 virtual tag + AlarmHigh scripted alarm

Set the *_TRUST_WIRE env vars to 1 when you've pointed the script at real hardware or a properly-configured simulator.

Output

Each step prints one of:

  • [PASS] ... — step succeeded
  • [FAIL] ... — step failed, stdout of the failing CLI is echoed below for diagnosis
  • [SKIP] ... — step short-circuited (env-var gate)
  • [INFO] ... — progress note (e.g., "waiting 3s for server-side poll")

The runner ends with a coloured summary per driver:

==================== FINAL MATRIX ====================
  modbus     PASS
  abcip      PASS
  ablegacy   SKIP (no config entry)
  s7         PASS
  focas      SKIP (no config entry)
  twincat    SKIP (no config entry)
  phase7     PASS
All present suites passed.

Non-zero exit if any present suite failed. SKIPs do not fail the run.

Why this is separate from dotnet test

dotnet test covers driver-layer + server-layer correctness in isolation — mocks + in-process test hosts. These e2e scripts cover the integration seam that unit tests can't cover by design: a live OPC UA server process, a live simulator, and the wire between them. Run them before a v2 release-readiness sign-off, after a driver-layer change that could plausibly affect the NodeManager contract, and before any "it works on my box" handoff to QA.