TDDskeleton

The purpose of this is to allow you to quickly get started with test driven development without getting bogged down in setting up a testing pipeile.

This uses tox to set up a full testing pipeline for the code that is installed via setup.py which in this case is the package you can put in the app/ folder.

After you have installed tox as per the installation steps below you just have to write your tests in tests/ and your code in app/ then run the tox command.

Doing this will get you the following testing pipeline run:

• pylint
• mypy
• pytest
• coverage

Installation

There's some Python packages that you need to install in order to get started.

These are found in test_requirements.txt, install with:

pip install -U pip
pip install -r test_requirements.txt

(Updating pip may not be required but is recommended)

Usage

There's a folder called app/ that contains a python package.

You can write tests for code that resides in app/ in the tests/ folder.

To run the test suite just issue the command tox and it will then run the test suite.

Packages

Because this is structured in such a way that it installs your code as a package via setup.py, you will need to set up any package dependencies your code has in setup.py.

Go to setup.py and add any packages you depend on into the list for install_requires.

How to setup test-driven development for your own project:

1. Clone https://github.com/PythonCharmers/TDDskeleton
2. Copy these files to your project folder:
   • setup.py (and modify it)
   • tox.ini
3. Add tox to your project's requirements.txt file.
4. pip install -r requirements.txt
5. Change every reference to app in setup.py and tox.ini to your package name.
6. Update tox.ini to refer to the location of your requirements.txt if renamed or somewhere else.
7. Ensure you have a tests folder with at least one test_....py file.

Now run

tox