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The big difference is that a unit test often runs with a lot of logic or context mocked out or simulated (for example, canned Facts instead of actual data from a system) and does not typically go all the way through enforcing a resource. Acceptance tests, on the other hand, are often run with nothing simulated. A VM or container with the target operating system is created,

puppet-agent

is installed, and resources are enforced for realsies. Then the test runner inspects what actually happened to the operating system and asserts that it meets some expectation.

Yes, I have already written some acceptance tests for severeal modules, I just trying to figure out how to run acceptance test for a node that has an specific role and it uses third party components like the accounts module from puppetlabs. This information is very apreciated 🙂

Putting acceptance tests in the

role

or

profile

modules that make assertions about what happens when those components are applied to a node is a reasonable way to do it 👍