why executors are decoupled from tests? (No option to choose executor versions)

[ramanathan23]

Hi All, I am new to testkube platform. I saw that we have test executors which execute the provided tests from file or git repositories and basically these executors are docker images.

what happens if my tests were developed in a different platform version and executed in different platform version?

eg: tests developed in lower version of Postman and executors stays on higher version of Postman.

Why we have such decoupling between tests and test executors? What is the architecture decision behind this?

I don't see an option to choose particular version of executor to have the compatibility between tests and executors.

[vsukhin]

hey @ramanathan23 thank you for a set of good questions. Think we still miss these answers in our docs, if you ask them :) @TheBrunoLopes @aabedraba @alelthomas

1. The main idea of our project is to decouple tests and their execution runtime. So, you can pretty much follow GitOps approach, store your tests in git repo, exchange between different k8s clusters using ArgoCD, etc And, ideally, users can have different runtimes, not only Testkube one
2. We are Open Source, meaning, you're able to add missing parts yourself. For exampe, in case of specific test engine version,you can fork testkube repo and update Docker file with required version or add additional packages
3. You can always try to use our Container executor and define precise test engine version as a source image
4. We are going to support (at lease major versions) different executor versions, not sure about all of them. This is a planned improvement

[ramanathan23]

@vsukhin Thank you!