Testing

All tests can be run using tox simply by running the tox command. By default, tests are run against a local sqlite2 instance. pyenv can be used to manage multiple python installations.

MySql / Postgres tests

By using Docker, you can also run tests against either a MySQL db and/or Postgres.

The IMPORT_EXPORT_TEST_TYPE must be set according to the type of tests you wish to run. Set to ‘postgres’ for postgres tests, and ‘mysql-innodb’ for mysql tests. If this environment variable is blank (or is any other value) then the default sqlite2 db will be used.

This process is scripted in runtests.sh. Assuming that you have docker installed on your system, running runtests.sh will run tox against sqlite2, mysql and postgres. You can edit this script to customise testing as you wish.

Note that this is the process which is undertaken by CI builds.

Coverage

Coverage data is written in parallel mode by default (defined in setup.cfg). After a tox run, you can view coverage data as follows:

# combine all coverage data generated by tox into one file
coverage combine

# produce an HTML coverage report
coverage html

Check the output of the above commands to locate the coverage HTML file.

Bulk testing

There is a helper script available to generate and profile bulk loads. See scripts/bulk_import.py.

You can use this script by configuring environment variables as defined above, and then installing and running the test application. In order to run the helper script, you will need to install requirements/test.txt, and then add django-extensions to settings.py (INSTALLED_APPS).

You can then run the script as follows:

# run creates, updates, and deletes
./manage.py runscript bulk_import

# pass 'create', 'update' or 'delete' to run the single test
./manage.py runscript bulk_import --script-args create