Opened 10 years ago

Last modified 9 years ago

#692 accepted defect

Proper documentation on how to author tests

Reported by: Christopher Allan Webber Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: documentation Keywords: test
Cc: Parent Tickets:

Description

We need better documentation on how to author unit tests. This should go in docs/source/devel/ on its own page, maybe "writing tests" or some such.

The following should be mentioned:

  • How to run tests (even though this is covered elsewhere)
  • What tools we use (pytest, webtest)
  • A simple "writing a unit test" example
  • Show to pass an application fixture into a test
  • Show how to set it up with different configs (I can explain this on IRC)

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Change History (4)

comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by Emily O'Leary

Owner: set to Emily O'Leary
Status: new → in_progress

As part of my OPW internship I will be implementing this.

comment:2 Changed 10 years ago by Emily O'Leary

I'm working on this in this repository:

​https://gitorious.org/mediagoblin-automation/mediagoblin-selenium

Right now it's in the form of the docs/ folder in plain text but I plan to move it toward reStructuredText.

comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by ShawnRisk

Keywords: test added

comment:4 Changed 9 years ago by Emily O'Leary

Owner: Emily O'Leary deleted
Status: in_progress → accepted

No progress on this on my end. It would probably be more fruitful to copy what I've written for functional tests and make it into reStructedText and then add more information about how to do Unit Tests.

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