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Automated testing
=================
Introduction
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The bash-completion package contains an automated test suite. Running the
tests should help verifying that bash-completion works as expected. The tests
are also very helpful in uncovering software regressions at an early stage.
The test suite is written in Python, using https://pytest.org/[pytest]
and https://pexpect.readthedocs.io/[pexpect].
Coding Style Guide
------------------
For the Python part, all of it is formatted using
https://github.com/ambv/black[Black], and we also run
https://flake8.pycqa.org/[Flake8] on it.
Installing dependencies
-----------------------
Installing dependencies should be easy using your local package manager or
`pip`. Python 3.4 or newer is required, and the rest of the Python package
dependencies are specified in the `test/requirements.txt` file. If using `pip`,
this file can be fed directly to it, e.g. like:
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pip install -r test/requirements.txt
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Debian/Ubuntu
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On Debian/Ubuntu you can use `apt-get`:
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sudo apt-get install python3-pytest python3-pexpect
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This should also install the necessary dependencies. Only Debian testing
(buster) and Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) and later have an appropriate version
of pytest in the repositories.
Fedora/RHEL/CentOS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On Fedora and RHEL/CentOS (with EPEL) you can try `yum` or `dnf`:
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sudo yum install python3-pytest python3-pexpect
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This should also install the necessary dependencies. At time of writing, only
Fedora 29 comes with recent enough pytest.
Structure
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Tests are in the `t/` subdirectory, with `t/test_\*.py` being completion
tests, and `t/unit/test_unit_\*.py` unit tests.
Running the tests
-----------------
Tests are run by calling `pytest` on the desired test directories or
individual files, for example in the project root directory:
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pytest test/t
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See `test/docker/docker-script.sh` for how and what we run and test in CI.
Specifying bash binary
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The test suite standard uses `bash` as found in PATH. Export the
`bashcomp_bash` environment variable with a path to another bash executable if
you want to test against something else.
Maintenance
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Adding a completion test
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You can run `cd test && ./generate cmd` to add a test for the `cmd`
command. Additional arguments will be passed to the first generated test case.
This will add the `test/t/test_cmd.py` file with a very basic test, and add it
to `test/t/Makefile.am`. Add additional tests to the generated file.
Rationale
---------
Naming conventions
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Test suite or testsuite
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The primary Wikipedia page is called
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_suite[test suite] and not testsuite, so
that's what this document sticks to.
script/generate
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The name and location of this code generation script come from Ruby on Rails'
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_on_Rails/Tools/Generators[script/generate].
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