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Testing

Writing Tests

Whenever additions or changes are made to the code base, tests should be added (or updated) to verify that the changes behave as expected.

Test cases for Synse Server can be found in the project's tests directory. Unit tests are found within the unit subdirectory. Within tests/unit, the test directory mirrors that of the package directory. Tests for a given file (e.g. synse_server/foo/bar.py) should have the same name, prefixed with "test" (e.g. tests/unit/foo/test_bar.py).

Tests are written using the pytest framework. Test dependencies are defined in the project's tox.ini configuration.

Running Tests

The test command is defined in the tox configuration and can be run by invoking tox with the path to the directory containing the tests. For convenience, a Makefile target can also be used.

# run tests directly via tox
tox tests/unit

# run tests via make
make test

Test output will be displayed in the console. Test artifacts will also be generated, including an HTML test coverage report.