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Olivier Ramonat 438381a447 Create a pytest plugin to reuse fixtures in other projects
Remove deprecated requirements traceability which is not maintained.
Create e3.pytest to reuse part of the code in conftest.py in other
projects.
Document the new plugin.
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Using the e3 pytest plugin
==========================
Introduction
------------
``e3-core`` contains a ``pytest`` plugin that is discovered automatically when
installed. The plugin provides several features: it generates a results file
compatible with anod when the environment variable ``RESULTS_DIR`` is defined.
It provides a simple setup for running coverage (on top of the pytest-cov
plugin). And it provides a env_protect fixture that is automatically activated.
Activating e3-core pytest plugins
---------------------------------
To activate the e3-core pytest plugin, you need to install e3-core and pass
the option ``--e3`` to pytest.
env_protect
^^^^^^^^^^^
When activated, the plugin will register the ``env_protect`` feature to ensure
that all tests are run in isolation. All changes to the environment done in
each test won't impact other tests. Also, each test is run in a separate temp
directory, you won't have to cleanup the files that the tests create.
``env_protect`` also sets some environment variables such as:
* ``TZ=UTC`` to ensure a consistent timezone handling
* ``E3_ENABLE_FEATURE=""`` to discard any specific features supported by e3
* ``E3_CONFIG=/dev/null`` to avoid having a specific e3 config read by the tests
And the e3 DEBUG log level is activated for each tests.
Coverage
^^^^^^^^
When running pytest with ``--e3`` and ``--cov`` options, pytest will
automatically generate an exclude list for lines matching the following
patterns:
* ``all: no cover``
* ``if TYPE_CHECKING:``
* ``@abstractmethod``
* ``# os-specific``
* ``defensive code``
* ``assert_never(),``
And ``<os>-only`` with ``<os>`` different from the local OS, so if you're
running a test on Linux, ``windows-only`` and ``darwin-only`` will be discared.
The opposite ``<os>: no cover`` is also supported.
Specific test for the windows platform are also detected:
* ``if sys.platform == win32``
* ``if sys.platform != win32``
* ``unix-only``
You can also skip complete files by creating an ``omit file`` in
``tests/coverage/omit-file-<os>``. The file should contain a filename per line.
Finally, the option ``--e3-cov-rewrite <origin> <dest>`` changes the paths
reported by coverage. If you run ``--e3-cov-rewrite
.tox/py311/cov-xdist/lib-site-packages src`` instead of seeing reports of files in
``.tox/py311-cov-xdist/lib/site-packages/e3/`` the report will show files
in the repository ``src/e3/``.
``require_tool`` fixture
------------------------
``e3.pytest`` provides a function ``require_tool`` that generates a fixture
allowing to skip tests if a tool is missing. For instance, to create a fixture
that will skip tests if ``git`` is not installed run:
.. code-block:: python
from e3.pytest import require_tool
git = require_tool("git")
# Use it in a test that will run only if git is installed
def test_git_fixture(git):
...