test: introduce flag for trace input to e2e framework (#1318)

* Add json marshal/unmarshal for test traces

* Remove auto-generated trace files

* Add an example trace to see the input format

* Add comment in rapid test

* Remove duplicated test case

* Remove TODO in favor of comment

* Reduce code duplication

* Run go mod tidy and make format

* Correct testdata directory in gitignore

* Remove testdata directory

* Remove testdata from gitignore

* Add tracehandler_testdata

* Remove example trace, since there are examples in the test data

* Revert unintentional change to .gitignore

* Remove propType field from generator

* Add docstrings to action_rapid test and state_rapid_test to better explain what the files are doing

* Add flag for reading test traces

* Refactor testRun to testConfig and remove testConfig specification for predefined cases

* Remove ::testConfig from Makefile

* Re-add removed BUILDDIR instruction

* Re-add removed newline

* Fix duplicated words

* Checkout tracehandler testdata from main

* Remove unecessary test trace

* Commit merged file

.github/workflows/automated-tests.yml

@@ -56,3 +56,17 @@ jobs:
           go-version: "1.20"
       - name: E2E tests
         run: make test-e2e-short-cometmock
+  Trace-Tests:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          lfs: true
+      - name: Checkout LFS objects
+        run: git lfs checkout
+      - name: Setup Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v4
+        with:
+          go-version: "1.20"
+      - name: E2E tests
+        run: make test-trace

Makefile

@@ -77,6 +77,10 @@ test-gaia-e2e-parallel-tagged:
 test-no-cache:
 	go test ./... -count=1 && go run ./tests/e2e/...
 
+# test reading a trace from a file
+test-trace:
+	go run ./tests/e2e/... --test-file tests/e2e/tracehandler_testdata/happyPath.json::default
+
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