Running Tests¶
gevent has an extensive regression test suite, implemented using the
standard unittest
module. It uses a custom testrunner
that provides enhanced test isolation
(important for monkey-patching), runs tests in parallel, and takes
care of other gevent-specific quirks.
Note
The gevent test process runs Python standard library tests with
gevent’s monkey-patches applied to ensure that gevent behaves
correctly (matches the standard library). The standard library
test
must be available in order to do this.
This is usually the case automatically, but some distributions
remove this module. Notably, on Debian, you will probably need
libpythonX.Y-testsuite
installed to run all the tests.
The test runner has a number of options:
$ python -mgevent.tests --help
usage: __main__.py [-h] [--ignore IGNORE] [--discover] [--config CONFIG]
[--coverage] [--quiet] [--verbose] [--debug]
[--package PACKAGE] [--processes PROCESSES] [--no-combine]
[-u RES1,RES2,...] [--travis-fold MSG]
[--second-chance | --failfast]
[tests ...]
positional arguments:
tests
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--ignore IGNORE
--discover Only print the tests found.
--config CONFIG The path to the config file containing FAILING_TESTS,
IGNORED_TESTS and RUN_ALONE. Defaults to
known_failures.py.
--coverage Enable coverage recording with coverage.py.
--quiet Be quiet. Defaults to True. Also the GEVENTTEST_QUIET
environment variable.
--verbose
--debug Enable debug settings. If the GEVENT_DEBUG environment
variable is not set, this sets it to 'debug'. This can
also enable PYTHONTRACEMALLOC and the debug
PYTHONMALLOC allocators, if not already set. Defaults
to False.
--package PACKAGE Load tests from the given package. Defaults to
gevent.tests.
--processes PROCESSES, -j PROCESSES
Use up to the given number of parallel processes to
execute tests. Defaults to 4.
--no-combine Do not combine tests into process groups.
-u RES1,RES2,..., --use RES1,RES2,...
specify which special resource intensive tests to run.
"all" is the default; "none" may also be used. Disable
individual resources with a leading -.For example,
"-u-network". GEVENTTEST_USE_RESOURCES is used if no
argument is given. To only use one resources, specify
"-unone,resource".
--travis-fold MSG Emit Travis CI log fold markers around the output.
--second-chance Give failed tests a second chance.
--failfast, -x Stop running after the first failure.
The simplest way to run all the tests is just to invoke the test runner, typically from the root of the source checkout:
(gevent-env) $ python -mgevent.tests
Running tests in parallel with concurrency 7
...
Ran 3107 tests (skipped=333) in 132 files in 01:52
You can also run an individual gevent test file using the test runner:
(gevent-env) $ python -m gevent.tests test__util.py
Running tests in parallel with concurrency 1
+ /.../python -u -mgevent.tests.test__util
- /.../python -u -mgevent.tests.test__util [Ran 9 tests in 1.1s]
Longest-running tests:
1.1 seconds: /.../python -u -mgevent.tests.test__util
Ran 9 tests in 1 files in 1.1s
Or you can run a monkey-patched standard library test:
(gevent-env) $ python -m gevent.tests.test___monkey_patching test_socket.py
Running tests in parallel with concurrency 1
+ /.../python -u -W ignore -m gevent.testing.monkey_test test_socket.py
Running with patch_all(Event=False): test_socket.py
Added imports 1
Skipped testEmptyFileSend (1)
...
Ran 555 tests in 23.042s
OK (skipped=172)
- /.../python -u -W ignore -m gevent.testing.monkey_test test_socket.py [took 26.7s]
Longest-running tests:
26.7 seconds: /.../python -u -W ignore -m gevent.testing.monkey_test test_socket.py
Ran 0 tests in 1 files in 00:27
Environment Variables¶
Some testrunner options have equivalent environment variables.
Notably, --quiet
is GEVENTTEST_QUIET
and -u
is
GEVENTTEST_USE_RESOURCES
.
Using tox¶
Before submitting a pull request, it’s a good idea to run the tests across all supported versions of Python, and to check the code quality using prospector/pylint. This is what is done on CI. Locally it can be done using tox:
pip install tox
tox
Measuring Code Coverage¶
This is done on CI so it’s not often necessary to do locally.
The testrunner accepts a --coverage
argument to enable code
coverage metrics through the coverage.py package. That would go
something like this:
python -m gevent.tests --coverage
coverage combine
coverage html -i
<open htmlcov/index.html>
Limiting Resource Usage¶
gevent supports the standard library test suite’s resources. All
resources are enabled by default. Disabling resources disables the
tests that use those resources. For example, to disable tests that
access the external network (the Internet), disable the network
resource. There’s an option for this:
$ python -m gevent.tests -u-network
And an environment variable:
$ GEVENTTEST_USE_RESOURCES=-network python -m gevent.tests