Quickstart

If you have a directory containing a sphinx project, test that it builds with something like:

class TestMyProject(SourcesBuilder):

    page_source_template = 'path/to/sphinx_dir'

    def test_basic_build(self):
        # Get doctree for page "a_page.rst"
        doctree = self.get_doctree('a_page')
        # Assert stuff about doctree version of page
        html = self.get_built_file('a_page.html')
        # Assert stuff about html version of page

You can try adding other page content by using the rst_sources dictionary:

class TestChangedProject(SourcesBuilder):

    page_source_template = 'path/to/sphinx_dir'
    rst_sources = {'a_page': """Replacement text for page""",
                   'b_page': """An entirely new page"""}

    def test_basic_build(self):
        a_doctree = self.get_doctree('a_page')
        b_doctree = self.get_doctree('b_page')
        # Your tests for the new page content here

Set the text of the conf.py file with the conf_source attribute:

class TestConfeddProject(SourcesBuilder):

    page_source_template = 'path/to/sphinx_dir'
    rst_sources = {'a_page': """Replacement text for page""",
                   'b_page': """An entirely new page"""}
    conf_source = """ # This overwrites existing conf.py """

    def test_basic_build(self):
        a_doctree = self.get_doctree('a_page')
        b_doctree = self.get_doctree('b_page')
        # Your tests for the new page content here

You don’t need to set page_source_template; if you don’t, you start with a fresh project, where the only pages are the ones you specify in rst_sources.

class TestFreshProject(SourcesBuilder):

    rst_sources = {'a_page': """A new page""",
                   'b_page': """Another new page"""}
    conf_source = """ # Stuff for the conf.py file """

    def test_basic_build(self):
        a_doctree = self.get_doctree('a_page')
        b_doctree = self.get_doctree('b_page')
        # Your tests for the new page content here

See the tests for examples of using Sphinxtesters for testing builds of Sphinx projects.

Installation

pip install sphinxtesters

Code

See https://github.com/matthew-brett/sphinxtesters

Released under the BSD two-clause license - see the file LICENSE in the source distribution.

travis-ci kindly tests the code automatically under Python versions 2.7, and 3.3 through 3.6.

The latest released version is at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphinxtesters

Tests

• Install sphinxtesters

• Install the pytest testing framework:

  pip install pytest

• Run the tests with:

  pytest sphinxtesters

Support

Please put up issues on the sphinxtesters issue tracker.