automated_testing.md

Automated Testing

Introduction

For Python projects, you can write automated tests to evaluate your code. For this project, it is a little more complicated because the program relies on specific input files. I will be using the pytest library to write these test cases. Hopefully, in the future, we can integrate a CI/CD tool (GitHub Actions) to automatically run these test cases for each commit or pull request.

Getting Started

Since this will require the use of the pytest library, it is a good idea to create a virtual environment for this project. We can do this with the following code in the command line or via the settings in your IDE:

For Windows:

py -m venv env
.\env\Scripts\activate
pip install pytest

For Mac/*nix:

python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip3 install pytest

Test Cases

• convert time string to military time