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Mads Kiilerich - 9 years ago 2016-06-10 01:19:58
madski@unity3d.com
docs: make the default method for running tests more visible

Sometimes, users found the convoluted and risky method of testing without
recreating the database before spotting the simple method.
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Getting started
 
---------------
 

	
 
To get started with development::
 

	
 
        hg clone https://kallithea-scm.org/repos/kallithea
 
        cd kallithea
 
        virtualenv ../kallithea-venv
 
        source ../kallithea-venv/bin/activate
 
        pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
 
        pip install -e .
 
        paster make-config Kallithea my.ini
 
        paster setup-db my.ini --user=user --email=user@example.com --password=password --repos=/tmp
 
        paster serve my.ini --reload &
 
        firefox http://127.0.0.1:5000/
 

	
 
You can also start out by forking https://bitbucket.org/conservancy/kallithea
 
on Bitbucket_ and create a local clone of your own fork.
 

	
 

	
 
Running tests
 
-------------
 

	
 
After finishing your changes make sure all tests pass cleanly. You can run
 
the testsuite running ``py.test`` from the project root, or if you use tox
 
run ``tox`` for Python 2.6--2.7 with multiple database test.
 
the testsuite by running ``py.test`` from the project root::
 

	
 
    py.test
 

	
 
You can also use ``tox`` to run the tests with all supported Python versions
 
(currently Python 2.6--2.7).
 

	
 
When running tests, Kallithea uses `kallithea/tests/test.ini` and populates the
 
SQLite database specified there.
 

	
 
It is possible to avoid recreating the full test database on each invocation of
 
the tests, thus eliminating the initial delay. To achieve this, run the tests as::
 

	
 
    paster serve kallithea/tests/test.ini --pid-file=test.pid --daemon
 
    KALLITHEA_WHOOSH_TEST_DISABLE=1 KALLITHEA_NO_TMP_PATH=1 py.test
 
    kill -9 $(cat test.pid)
 

	
 
In these commands, the following variables are used::
 

	
 
    KALLITHEA_WHOOSH_TEST_DISABLE=1 - skip whoosh index building and tests
 
    KALLITHEA_NO_TMP_PATH=1 - disable new temp path for tests, used mostly for testing_vcs_operations
 

	
 
You can run individual tests by specifying their path as argument to py.test.
 
py.test also has many more options, see `py.test -h`. Some useful options
 
are::
 

	
 
    -k EXPRESSION         only run tests which match the given substring
 
                          expression. An expression is a python evaluable
 
                          expression where all names are substring-matched
 
                          against test names and their parent classes. Example:
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