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Cell-by-cell tests for JupyterLab

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# jupyterlab_celltests Cell-by-cell testing for production Jupyter notebooks in JupyterLab

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# Overview Celltests is designed for writing tests for linearly executed notebooks. Its primary use is for report unit tests.

### “Linearly executed notebooks?” When converting notebooks into html/pdf/email reports, they are executed from top-to-bottom one time, and are expected contain as little code as reasonably possible, focusing primarily on the plotting and markdown bits. Libraries for this type of thing include [Papermill](https://github.com/nteract/papermill), [JupyterLab Emails](https://github.com/timkpaine/jupyterlab_email), etc.

### Doesn’t this already exist? [Nbval](https://github.com/computationalmodelling/nbval) is a great product and I recommend using it for notebook regression tests. But it compares the executed notebook’s outputs to its existing outputs, which doesn’t align well with dynamic reports which might be run everyday with different input/output data.

### So why do I want this again? This doesn’t necessarily help you if your data sources go down, but its likely you’ll notice this anyway. Where this comes in handy is:

  • when the environment (e.g. package versions) are changing in your system

  • when you play around in the notebook (e.g. nonlinear execution) but aren’t sure if your reports will still generate

  • when your software lifecycle systems have a hard time dealing with notebooks (can’t lint/audit them as code unless integrated nbdime/nbconvert to script, tough to test, tough to ensure what works today works tomorrow)

### So what does this do? Given a notebook, you can write mocks and assertions for individual cells. You can then generate a testing script for this notebook, allowing you to hook it into your testing system and thereby provide unittests of your report.

## Writing tests When you write tests for a cell, we create a new method on a unittest class corresponding to the index of your cell, and including the cumulative tests for all previous cells (to mimic what has happened so far in the notebook’s linear execution). You can write whatever mocking and asserts you like, and can call %cell to inject the contents of the cell into your test. ![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/timkpaine/jupyterlab_celltests/master/docs/demo.gif) The tests themselves are stored in the cell metadata, similar to celltags, slide information, etc.

## Running tests You can run the tests offline from an .ipynb file, or you can execute them from the browser and view the results of pytest-html’s html plugin. ![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/timkpaine/jupyterlab_celltests/master/docs/demo2.gif)

## Extra Tests - Max number of lines per cell - Max number of cells per notebook - Max number of function definitions per notebook - Max number of class definitions per notebook - Percentage of cells tested

## Example In the committed Untitled.ipynb notebook, but modified so that cell 0 has its import statement copied 10 times (to trigger test and lint failures):

### Tests `bash Untitled_test.py::TestExtension::test_cell0 PASSED [ 8%] Untitled_test.py::TestExtension::test_cell1 PASSED [ 16%] Untitled_test.py::TestExtension::test_cell2 PASSED [ 25%] Untitled_test.py::TestExtension::test_cell3 PASSED [ 33%] Untitled_test.py::TestExtension::test_cell_coverage PASSED [ 41%] Untitled_test.py::TestExtension::test_cells_per_notebook PASSED [ 50%] Untitled_test.py::TestExtension::test_class_definition_count PASSED [ 58%] Untitled_test.py::TestExtension::test_function_definition_count PASSED [ 66%] Untitled_test.py::TestExtension::test_lines_per_cell_0 FAILED [ 75%] Untitled_test.py::TestExtension::test_lines_per_cell_1 PASSED [ 83%] Untitled_test.py::TestExtension::test_lines_per_cell_2 PASSED [ 91%] Untitled_test.py::TestExtension::test_lines_per_cell_3 PASSED [100%] ` ### Lint `bash Checking lines in cell 0: FAILED Checking lines in cell 1: PASSED Checking lines in cell 2: PASSED Checking lines in cell 3: PASSED Checking cells per notebook <= 10: PASSED Checking functions per notebook <= 10: PASSED Checking classes per notebook <= 10: PASSED Checking cell test coverage >= 50: PASSED `

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