Poodle
Poodle is an tool for Mutation Testing your Python projects.
Mutation Testing proves the quality of your test suite by introducing bugs in your application, then verifying if your test cases can find the bug.
Features
The goal of Poodle is to be highly efficient, configurable, and extendable.
- Multi-Threaded execution
- Highly Configurable (toml and py)
- Plug in custom code
- Output reports in Text, HTML, and JSON
Quick Start
Installation:
pip install poodle --upgrade
Usage: poodle [OPTIONS] [SOURCES]...
Poodle Mutation Test Tool.
Options:
-c PATH Configuration File.
-q Quiet mode: q, qq, or qqq
-v Verbose mode: v, vv, or vvv
-w INTEGER Maximum number of parallel workers.
--exclude TEXT Add a glob exclude file filter. Multiple allowed.
--only TEXT Glob pattern for files to mutate. Multiple allowed.
--report TEXT Enable reporter by name. Multiple allowed.
--html PATH Folder name to store HTML report in.
--json PATH File to create with JSON report.
--fail_under FLOAT Fail if mutation score is under this value.
--version Show the version and exit.
--help Show this message and exit.
Documentation:
Contribute
- Issue Tracker: https://github.com/WiredNerd/poodle/issues
- Source Code: https://github.com/WiredNerd/poodle
Support
If you are having issues, please let us know.
I can be contacted at: pbuschmail-poodle@yahoo.com
Or by opening an issue: https://github.com/WiredNerd/poodle/issues
License
The project is licensed under the MIT license.
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