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GC-14: Cleaned-up testing and development configuration and documentation:

- Enforce 100% coverage in tests (fail the tests otherwise).
- Updated development documentation to list:
- How to run tests with coverage.
- How to generate coverage in html format.
- How to build documentation.
- What tests are included when running test via tox.
- Default to running just the unit tests when not passing in any
arguments to pytest.
- Removed use of pytest-flake8.
- Do not run coverage tests by default outside of tox.
- Ensure documentation is built inside of tox environment, and that it
does not pollute the source directory.
- Have all Python interpreters specified in same section in tox
configuration file.
.. Copyright (C) 2018 Branko Majic

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Development
===========

This section provides information on development process for the
project, including instructions on how to set-up a development
environment or run the tests locally.


Preparing development environment
---------------------------------

There is a number of different ways a development environment can be
set-up. The process outlined here is centered around
`virtualenvwrapper
<https://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.io/>`_. Instructions have been
tailored for a GNU/Linux system.

Before proceeding, ensure you have the following system-wide packages
installed:

- `Python, version 3.4+ <https://www.python.org/>`_.
- `virtualenvwrapper <https://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.io/>`_.

With those in place, do the following:

1. Clone the git repository::

     git clone https://code.majic.rs/gimmecert/

2. Change directory::

     cd gimmecert/

3. Create Python virtual environment:

   .. warning::
      Make sure to specify Python 3 as interpreter.

   ::

     mkvirtualenv -a . -p /usr/bin/python3 gimmecert

4. Install development requirements::

     pip install -e .[devel]

5. At this point, any time you want to run tests etc, you can easily
   switch to correct environment (this will also put you in project
   root directory) with::

     workon gimmecert


Testing
-------

Project includes both unit tests (within ``tests/`` directory) , and
functional tests (within ``functional_tests/`` directory).

Tests can be run in a number of different ways, depending on what you
want to test and how.

To run the unit tests via setup script, run the following command from
repository root::

  python setup.py test

To run the unit tests directly, run the following command from
repository root::

  pytest

Tests can be also run with coverage checks. By default coverage is
configured to report to standard output. Report will only list files
which lack coverage. For each file a percentage will be shown, as well
as line numbers that were not covered by tests. To include coverage
checks, run tests with::

  pytest --cov

.. warning::
   Gimmecert project has 100% coverage requirement. Anything below
   will trigger failures when coverage checks are run.

Should you desire to generate coverage report in HTML format, run
(coverage report will be put into directory ``coverage/``)::

  pytest --cov --cov-report=html:coverage/

Functional tests must be run explicitly (since they tend to take more
time), with::

  pytest functional_tests/

In addition to proper linting, implemented code should be pruned of
unused imports and variables. Linting should be conformant to PEP8,
with the exception of line length, which is allowed to be up to 160
characters. Linting and code sanity checks are not executed
automatically, but can easily be run with::

  flake8

Documentation should be buildable at all times. Documentation build
can be triggered with a simple::

  cd docs/
  make html

Tests can also be run using `tox <https://tox.readthedocs.io/>`_:

.. note::
   When running tests via ``tox``, functional tests and coverage
   checks are included as well.

::

  # Run full suite of tests on all supported Python versions.
  tox

  # List available tox environments.
  tox -l

  # Run tests against specific Python version.
  tox -e py35

  # Run documentation and linting tests only.
  tox -e doc,lint


Building documentation
----------------------

Documentation is written in `reStructuredText
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReStructuredText>`_ and built via
`Sphinx <http://www.sphinx-doc.org/>`_.

To build documentation, run::

  cd docs/
  make html

Resulting documentation will be stored in HTML format in directory
``docs/_build/html/``.