epyunit 0.1.10

The ‘epyunit’ package provides extensions of the PyUnit framework for unit and regression tests of executables written in arbitrary languages. In distinction to some more comprising and though complex frameworks the ‘epyunit’ provides a minimal but sufficient approach in particular for the low-effort test automation of scripts and tools.

The reuse of the standard PyUnit in combination with PyDev provides out-of-the-box integration into the Eclipse-IDE. Thus command line based regression tests as well as a graphical frontend for test statistics provided by PyDev could be applied.

The epyunit components call the wrapped process and read the execution results from STDOUT, STDERR, and the exit value. The values are read into Python variables either for further processing, or optional pass-through to the caller.

The ‘epyunit’ package provides in particular:

• Support for unit tests of shell scripts - bash - from command line and Eclipse/PyDev

• The simplified reuse of executables as test-dummies within multiple test cases.

• The categorization of structures defined by the directory tree.

• The support of arbitrary intermixed implementation languages for executables.

The implementation supports Python(>=2.7) and integrates into the Eclipse IDE with PyDev, and PyUnit.

The package ‘epyunit’ is a spin off from the project ‘UnifiedSessionsManager-2.0’.

The main interface classes are:

• FileSysObjectsMin - A subset of the project PyFileSysObjects.

• SystemCalls - Adaptation of sub-process calls for unit tests.

The architecture is based on the packages ‘PyUnit’ and ‘PyDev’:

                   +-----------------------+     call      +-----------------------+
                   |                       |    ------>    |                       |
Subprocess         |        ePyUnit        |               |  Wrapped-Executable   |
                   |                       |    <-----     |                       |
                   +-----------------------+     stdin     +-----------------------+
                               |                 stderr                |
                               |                 exit                  V
                               |                           +-----------------------+
PyDev Remote                   |                           |    PyDevRemoteDBG     |      Debug into subprocess
Debug Server                   |                           +-----------------------+
                               |                                       |
               . . . . . . . . | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | . . . . . . . .
                               |                                       |
                               V                                       V
                   +-----------------------+               +-----------------------+
Python Units       |         PyUnit        |     <--->     |         PyDev         |
                   +-----------------------+               +-----------------------+
                       |               |                              |
                       V               V                             /
                 +-----------+   +-----------+                      /
IDE              |    CLI    |   |  Eclipse  |<--------------------/
                 +-----------+   +-----------+

For examples and patterns see subdirectories:

• UseCases

• tests

Downloads:

• Sourceforge.net: https://sourceforge.net/projects/epyunit/files/

• Github: https://github.com/ArnoCan/epyunit/

Online documentation:

• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/epyunit/

• https://pythonhosted.org/epyunit/