genie 19.0

Genie - Main package for Genie infrastructure

Genie is both a library framework and a test harness that facilitates rapid development, encourage re-usable and simplify writing test automation. Genie bundled with the modular architecture of pyATS framework accelerates and simplifies test automation leveraging all the perks of the Python programming language in an object-orienting fashion.

pyATS is an end-to-end testing ecosystem, specializing in data-driven and reusable testing, and engineered to be suitable for Agile, rapid development iterations. Extensible by design, pyATS enables developers start with small, simple and linear test cases, and scale towards large, complex and asynchronous test suites.

Genie was initially developed internally in Cisco, and is now available to the general public starting early 2018 through Cisco DevNet. Visit the Genie home page at

https://developer.cisco.com/site/pyats/

Genie Package

This is the top-level package of Genie. Installing it will automatically install all Genie components and dependencies.

Requirements

Genie currently supports Python 3.4+ on Linux & Mac systems. Windows platforms are not yet supported.

Quick Start

# install genie as a whole
$ pip install genie

# to upgrade this package manually
$ pip install --upgrade genie

# to install alpha/beta versions, add --pre
$ pip install --pre genie

For more information on setting up your Python development environment, such as creating virtual environment and installing pip on your system, please refer to Virtual Environment and Packages in Python tutorials.

Example

As part of installation, examples showcasing various features & idioms of coding in Genie will be copied to your virtual environment under examples/ folder.

In addition, you can also get a copy of these examples here:

https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/pyats-sample-scripts TODO

The examples are self-explanatory, and includes the necessary instructions on how to run them.