Package and Distribute Your Test Suite

Hamza Sheikh — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 22:26:33 GMT

Automated test suites must be packaged for installation and distributed just like your other build artifacts. They are not some special things that live in a code repository (repo) separate from the rest of your code.

My team was writing tests and keeping them all in a git repo. The repo would be cloned and then PyTest would run these tests. All users of tests - from developers to Continuous Integration (CI) and everyone else in between - would run steps akin to:

git clone git@github.com:username/testrepo.git
cd testrepo
git checkout main
pip install -r requirements.txt
py.test tests/

This worked for a while but was not a good fit as time progressed for these reasons:

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Why do Developers Still Think Tests are a Waste of their Time?

Hamza Sheikh — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 06:46:22 GMT

I recently took to Twitter to write about developers who do not run tests. It is a tricky topic to discuss as everyone has their favored position, sometimes based on their experience. I fall decidedly on the side of making developers run tests during development.

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Package and Distribute Your Test Suite

Why do Developers Still Think Tests are a Waste of their Time?