testflo 1.0

Python Testing Framework

testflo was written to support testing of the OpenMDAO framework. Some OpenMDAO features require execution under MPI while some others don’t, so we wanted a testing framework that could run all of our tests in the same way and would allow us to build all of our tests using unittest.TestCase objects that we were already familiar with. The MPI testing functionality was originally implemented using the nose testing framework. It worked, but was always buggy, and the size and complexity of the nose framework made it difficult to know exactly what was going on.

Enter testflo, an attempt to build a simpler testing framework that would have the basic functionality of other test frameworks, with the additional ability to run MPI unit tests that are very similar to regular unit tests.