[TIP] ANNOUNCE: Pandokia
Victoria G. Laidler
laidler at stsci.edu
Tue Aug 18 13:28:14 PDT 2009
Hi folks,
Back at Pycon, I gave a lightning talk about Pandokia, our test
management & reporting system, and we had a bit of discussion on this
list afterwards. I'm happy to report that Mark & I have finally managed
to get a release out the door, which you can read about and download at
this page:
https://svn.stsci.edu/trac/ssb/etal
Pandokia is designed as a light-weight system for test management and
reporting. It does not replace a test runner such as nose; instead, it
provides additional functionality before (test discovery and customized
environment) and after (notification, detecting missing tests, web-based
reporting) tests are run. Its components are loosely coupled and it is
language-agnostic, so that any test runner or reporting system that
complies with the interface can participate in the system.
The current version provides a plugin for nose that generates compliant
test reports; it also provides a test runner for tests that are
implemented in shell scripts.
Pandokia uses an sqlite3 database to store test results, and provides a
very basic web server for demo purposes. Some demo data is included in
the release, which you can import into the database and get a feel for
how the browsable reports work.
The documentation isn't pretty and is not entirely complete, but there
should be enough to give you a flavor for the system and get you started
using it.
Please take a look, give it a try if you think it would be useful, and
let us know what you think. Discussion on this list is very welcome!
cheers,
Vicki Laidler
Mark Sienkiewicz
SSB/STScI
ps - Also take a look at cyrano, available at the same URL. If you saw
the "playerpiano" demo at pycon, cyrano is something like that but
fuller-featured. I've used it for demos & gotten strong praise for it
(though I didn't write it! - the author is Todd Miller, also here at STScI).
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