added option to ansible-test to run test playbooks using the debug strategy (#26499)

test/runner/lib/config.py

@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ class IntegrationConfig(TestConfig):
         self.start_at_task = args.start_at_task  # type: str
         self.allow_destructive = args.allow_destructive if 'allow_destructive' in args else False  # type: bool
         self.retry_on_error = args.retry_on_error  # type: bool
+        self.debug_strategy = args.debug_strategy  # type: bool
         self.tags = args.tags
         self.skip_tags = args.skip_tags
         self.diff = args.diff

test/runner/lib/delegation.py

@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ def delegate_docker(args, exclude, require):
 
     cmd_options = []
 
-    if isinstance(args, ShellConfig):
+    if isinstance(args, ShellConfig) or (isinstance(args, IntegrationConfig) and args.debug_strategy):
         cmd_options.append('-it')
 
     with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(prefix='ansible-source-', suffix='.tgz') as local_source_fd:

test/runner/lib/executor.py

@@ -595,6 +595,9 @@ def integration_environment(args, target, cmd):
         ANSIBLE_CALLBACK_WHITELIST='junit',
     )
 
+    if args.debug_strategy:
+        env.update(dict(ANSIBLE_STRATEGY='debug'))
+
     env.update(integration)
 
     cloud_environment = get_cloud_environment(args, target)

test/runner/test.py

@@ -216,6 +216,10 @@ def parse_args():
                              action='store_true',
                              help='retry failed test with increased verbosity')
 
+    integration.add_argument('--debug-strategy',
+                             action='store_true',
+                             help='run test playbooks using the debug strategy')
+
     subparsers = parser.add_subparsers(metavar='COMMAND')
     subparsers.required = True  # work-around for python 3 bug which makes subparsers optional