[TIP] system testing with Python

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Sun Jan 26 11:11:59 PST 2014


If you’re working with shell commands, a shell framework might be easier to use than something based on Python. I use shunit2 for testing virtualenvwrapper, for example.

http://shunit.sourceforge.net/
https://code.google.com/p/shunit2/

On Jan 26, 2014, at 1:43 PM, Alfredo Deza <alfredo at deza.pe> wrote:

> I am searching for something in Python that will help in system testing. That is, run a command (or a few of them) and allow
> assertions on output or on exit status.
> 
> I’m well aware though that I can do a few calls to subprocess and then inspect stdout/stderr for a match or check the exit status
> with that same object, but I was wondering if there is something out there that might help here.
> 
> The use case is for tests that are done on a storage cluster, so several machines are brought up and a few commands are sent to the cluster with certain expectations, although most of the time we are looking for a non-zero exit status.
> 
> I love py.test, so a plugin for it would be nice, although I wouldn’t mind looking at other things that might help with this kind of testing.
> 
> Any ideas or example would be great!
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alfredo
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