Testing

If you read this that mean that you want to do something with the code (read or add). This README will try to explain how all the tests are organized and how it should look like.

Running

To run the tests that come with pyMAL:

1. Install nose (A package for running tests - pip install nose).
2. Navigate to the pymal directory
3. Run nosetests.

Guide lines

Questions about our testing and their answers.

Q: What framework we are using?

A: We are using the basic unittest that python gives us. Please don’t add anything else like py.test and his friends.

Q: What do we check?

A: Every object in pymal should be tested with all his function and flows. Check the returned types and their data. Tests with mocks and with connection to MAL.

Q: Where to put my consts

A: If they are only for your test put them in your TestCase class. Otherwise, it should be place in constants_for_testing.py.

Q: And that’s all?

A: Pretty much yes, but remember to make asserts informative by code or by message.