Testing Directives

Testing is absolutely necessary!

For every module module_name.py, write a corresponding test class TestModuleName in a tests/test_module_name.py file using the unittest package. For tests that have to be run in parallel using mpi4py, name the test file tests/mpitest_module_name.py. This then allows automated testing using ./floatpy/tests/runtests.sh from the project directory

• Write one test file for each module you write
• Use long and descriptive names for each test
• Try not to make tests that take a long time to run
• If data is needed for your test, put it in tests/test_module_name_data/
• Make sure the data for your test is small (< 1MB in total)