Python Testing Library

[ross-morrison]

• Research a python testing library to use
• Examples on how to use

[Nicholas-C-Brown]

Unit testing

For basic unit tests we can just use the built in unittest library.

Some important information when writing unit tests:

1. Tests should be created in the tests directory.

2. Every test should append the src directory to the sys.path.

   import sys
   import os.path
   sys.path.append(os.path.join(sys.path[0], '../src'))

3. To create a test class, inherit from the unittest.TestCase class

   class TestExampleClass(unittest.TestCase):

4. To ensure tests can be run by simple running the test file add the following

   if __name__ == '__main__':
   unittest.main()

GUI Tests

More research should be done with regard to writing tests for GUI code: https://towardsdatascience.com/automate-ui-testing-with-pyautogui-in-python-4a3762121973