Light bulb icon does not show

[thomprl]

I sent a message to Sanjula directly but thought others might benefit if they are having the same issue.

I created a very simple procedure to give this a try but the Light Bulb icon never shows up to create a test stub. I have a QTESTSRC source file created in my library. My library is in the library list as well. This is the simple program. It's compiled as a *MODULE. I also tried one that was a service program as well.

**free
ctl-opt nomain;
Dcl-Proc addNumbers export;
  Dcl-Pi *n packed(10:2);
    num1 packed(10:2);
    num2 packed(10:2);
  End-Pi;

  return (num1 + num2);
End-Proc;

[SanjulaGanepola]

Hey @thomprl. Thanks for sharing this issue. I just gave this a try and it looks like test stub generation is indeed not working for source members right now, although it does work fine for local files. I will have this fixed this week.

[SanjulaGanepola]

@thomprl I just published a new version of the extension (v1.1.0) which also requires a new version of the RPGLE extension (v0.31.0). It primarily has a bunch of improvements to test stub generation documented here, but also adds the code action light bulb to source members. I generate this with your snippet:

[Pranit1905]

I'm trying to implement the IBM i Unit Testing Extension in my organization, and followed the setup as per the documentation

What I did:
Installed VS Code extensions:
Code for IBM i
RPGLE Language Tools
Testing for IBM i
Downloaded the latest GitHub release .savf and restored it to my IBM i environment.(https://github.com/tools-400/irpgunit/releases/tag/v5.1.0b006)
Ran the STRREXPRC command successfully — no errors reported.
Right-clicked on the IBM i connection and selected "Connect and Reload Server Settings".
Navigated to the Components tab in the Testing view.

Issue:
The "Install component" option is not showing up in the Components tab. I Discussed the issue with @SanjulaGanepola on LinkedIn.

Can you please help investigate why the "Install component" option is not showing in the Components tab? It seems others may run into this too, so raising it here might help the community as well.

[SanjulaGanepola]

Hello @Pranit1905. From the screenshot you sent me on LinkedIn, I see that you actually already have v5.1.0b005 of RPGUnit installed on your system. It is the second last bullet on that page.

Are you trying to install a different version? At the moment, updating the library cannot be done directly from this UI (this would be a good future enhancement). The two current options to update are as follows:

1. Delete the existing RPGUNIT.LIB and come back to this Components tab to reinstall it.
2. Modify the Product Library VS Code setting to something like RPGUNIT1 and then come back to this Components tab to install it into this library. This option is more so if you want to have multiple version of RPGUnit installed at the same time.

At the moment, I would however recommend sticking with v5.1.0b005 as the current v5.1.0b006 did introduce a bug.

[Pranit1905]

Thanks for the information, Sanjula. I was trying to generate a test stub, but I felt like RPGUnit might not be installed correctly. Even when working with local files, I’m not seeing the “Generate Test Stub” option in the light bulb menu. Not sure, what I am missing. let me try with v5.1.0b005

[SanjulaGanepola]

@Pranit1905 Can you confirm that this is an exported procedure? This is a requirement to see the code actions. Do you also have version 0.30.0 of the RPGLE extension installed?

Can you copy and paste the procedure you are trying to generate a test stub for? I can give it a try on my end.

[Pranit1905]

Hey Sanjula, thanks again for the help!
Turns out I was missing the export keyword in my procedure—after adding that, I was able to successfully generate test stubs for local files. 🙌

While exploring the documentation for iRPGUnit, I noticed it includes assertions for character, numeric, and boolean variables. Since IBM's test stub generator seems to take inspiration from iRPGUnit, I wanted to ask:

➡️ Is IBM planning to expand the available assertions in the future—for example, assertions related to:

File I/O operations (open, close, read, write)

SQL operations (inserted/updated rows, SQLSTATE, result sets)

Arrays or data structure comparisons

Or even integration with job logs or message queues?

This kind of support would be really useful for end-to-end and integration testing on IBM i.

Let me know if this is on the roadmap or if the community can contribute ideas/code via GitHub. Thanks again for all your support - excited to see where this goes!

[edmundreinhardt]

As you implied these are enhancements to the base iRPGUnit open source package. As open source anyone is allowed to make a PR of some syntactic sugar in assertions to the https://github.com/tools-400/irpgunit repo.
But note that all of those assertions can already be made with basic boolean expressions.

[SanjulaGanepola]

As Edmund mentioned, those assertions can likely be done with the basic assert API which can take in a Boolean expression. There is both an API reference in the iRPGUnit docs (https://irpgunit.sourceforge.io/help/) and Code for IBM i docs (https://codefori.github.io/docs/developing/testing/writing/#api-reference).

Or even integration with job logs or message queues?

On the Code for IBM i docs page, check out the "Utilities" section which lists APIs such as getMonitoredMessage which can help with this.

Let me know if this is on the roadmap or if the community can contribute ideas/code via GitHub

For any feature requests for more APIs to add to RPGUnit, those requests should be opened in the RPGUnit repo (https://github.com/tools-400/irpgunit/issues). Since it is open source, you are also welcome to contribute code for it as well!