Testing¶
To invoke tests simply execute following command which will automatically download necessary testing dependencies and invoke tests:
python3 setup.py test
If the dependencies are already installed in your environment, you can also directly use pytest command:
pytest tests
Following testing dependencies are nowadays necessary to run tests:
- flexmock
- pytest
- betamax
betamax¶
In order to be able to run tests even when you are offline or you do not have Twitter API credentials, testing uses betamax framework to record http communication into cassettes. During testing these cassettes are used instead of initiating communication with Twitter server. You can however create new cassettes with new communication session whenever you want.
To invoke new cassettes recording for betamax testing, simply setup new
environment variable named AUTH_FILE pointing to the path to a
configuration file with valid credentials (see Configuration file). For instance, to start
testing by recording new cassettes, invoke:
AUTH_FILE=auth.cfg python3 setup.py test
or:
AUTH_FILE=auth.cfg pytest tests
where auth.cfg is the name of the configuration file.
To use already recorded cassettes simple omit the environment variable:
python3 setup.py test
or:
pytest tests