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Documentation and specification testing framework

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nydok is a combined specification writing and testing framework, for producing consistent and traceable specification documents. It is developed for Computerized Systems Validation in a GAMP 5 / GxP context, but is applicable to any software development process where traceability is important.

Write your requirements and risk assessment alongside your Python code, ensuring 1:1 mapping between requirements and the code you're writing.

It is implemented as a plugin for py.test for running the tests, combined with a CLI for creating reports.

Features

Some notable features are:

  • Lets you write specification documents including requirements as normal Markdown.
  • Keeps track of which requirements are missing test cases.
  • Supports a risk assessment process where you can link mitigations to your requirements.
  • Can generate several types of reports in Markdown format for use in a Computerized System Validation process, such as:
    • Traceability matrix
    • Code review reports (Gitlab)
    • Risk assessment report
    • Test summary report
    • CI pipeline logs report (Gitlab)

Installation

Note! nydok is still under development and hasn't yet had a v1.0.0 release, so expect breaking changes.

To install nydok using pip:

pip install nydok

or using Poetry:

poetry add nydok --group dev

Usage

See documentation for details on how to use nydok, the following is just meant as a quick glimpse of how it works. nydok has a lot more features than what is shown here.

Create a cowsay.spec.md specification file:

# Cowsay functional specification

## Functional requirements

- REQ001: The program must take as input a text string
- REQ002: The program must return a string with a cow in ASCII art, displaying the input text as a speech bubble

and a test_cowsay.py file:

from nydok import testcase
import cowsay


@testcase(["REQ001", "REQ002"])
def test_cowsay():
    assert cowsay("Hello world") == """
     _____________
    < Hello world >
     -------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||
    """

Next, run py.test to check the specification:

$ py.test --nydok-output nydok.json cowsay/
========================= test session starts =========================
platform linux -- Python 3.10.6, pytest-6.2.5, py-1.11.0, pluggy-1.0.0
rootdir: /project
plugins: nydok-0.8.0
collected 3 items

cowsay/test_cowsay.py::test_cowsay PASSED                       [ 33%]
cowsay/cowsay.spec.md::REQ001 PASSED                            [ 66%]
cowsay/cowsay.spec.md::REQ002 PASSED                            [100%]

========================== 3 passed in 0.01s ==========================

Each requirement listed in the specification file is counted as a test item, and will pass or fail depending on it's test case.

Finally, run nydok report to generate reports.

As an example, to create a traceability matrix, run:

$ nydok report traceability-matrix nydok.json

to generate the following Markdown table:

ID Description References Test case
REQ001 The program must take as input a text string TC001
REQ002 The program must return a string with a cow in ASCII art, displaying the input text as a speech bubble TC001

License

nydok is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.

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