Testing the Watson Assistant installation

After you install Watson Assistant, you can run a deployment verification test (DVT) to make sure that your service is working properly.

Permissions you need for this task:: You must be an administrator of the Red Hat® OpenShift® project.

This testing is a convenient way to check that a deployment is healthy. You can run a test immediately after deployment or periodically. Follow the steps in Running the test to run the first test on your Watson Assistant instance. If you already ran a test, follow the steps in Rerunning the test.

Running the test

Complete the following steps to run the first DVT on your Watson Assistant instance:

Go to the project where Watson Assistant is installed:
```
oc project ${PROJECT_CPD_INSTANCE}
```

Export the name of your Watson Assistant instance as an environment variable:


export INSTANCE=`oc get wa -n ${PROJECT_CPD_INSTANCE} |grep -v NAME| awk '{print $1}'` export VERSION=`oc get wa -n ${PROJECT_CPD_INSTANCE} |grep -v NAME| awk '{print $2}'`

Run the test:

cat <<EOF | oc apply -f -
apiVersion: assistant.watson.ibm.com/v1
kind: WatsonAssistantDvt
metadata:
  name: ${INSTANCE}
  namespace: ${PROJECT_CPD_INSTANCE}
  annotations:
    oppy.ibm.com/disable-rollback: "true"
spec:
  labels:
    "app.kubernetes.io/instance": ${INSTANCE}
  version: ${VERSION}
  assistantInstanceName: ${INSTANCE}
  # The cucumber test tags to execute
  testTags: "@accuracy,@callouts,@dialogs,@dialogErrors,@dialogV1,@dialogV1errors,@embedsearch,@entities,@exactMatch,@folders,@fuzzy,@generic,@healthcheck,@intents,@languagexx,@newse,@openentities,@patterns,@prebuilt,@recommends,@search,@slots,@spellcheck,@spellcheckfr,@v2authorskill,@v2authorwksp,@v2healthcheck,@v2skillref,@v2snapshots,@workspaces"
  cluster:
    type: "private"
    # :image_pull_secrets: pull secret names
    imagePullSecrets: []
    dockerRegistryPrefix: ""
EOF

Your changes initiate a pod named ${INSTANCE}-dvt. This ${INSTANCE}-dvt pod starts a pod named dvt that runs the verification test.

Check whether the ${INSTANCE}-dvt pod is available:
```
oc get pods |grep dvt
```
Optional: You can run the following command to view the logs from the pod while it is running:
```
oc logs ${INSTANCE}-dvt -f
```
Check the status of the test:
```
oc get dvt ${INSTANCE}
```
When the test is successful, a message similar to the following example is displayed:
```
NAME   PHASE       TESTRESULT   VERSION   AGE
wa     Completed   Passed       4.6.5   5h54m
```

Rerunning the test

Complete the following steps to rerun a DVT:

If you need to rerun the test, run the following command to delete the DVT custom resource:
```
oc delete dvt ${INSTANCE}
```
After you delete the custom resource, complete the steps from Running the test.