Testing

Dotbot testing code uses Vagrant to run all tests inside a virtual machine to have tests be completely isolated from the host machine.

Installing the Test environnement

Debian-based distributions

• Install the test requirements

sudo apt install vagrant virtualbox

• Install Dotbot dependencies

git submodule update --init --recursive

macOS

• Install the test requirements

  • VirtualBox
  • Vagrant

• Install Dotbot dependencies

git submodule update --init --recursive

Running the Tests

Before running the tests, the virtual machine must be running. It can be started by running vagrant up.

The test suite can be run by running ./test. Selected tests can be run by passing paths to the tests as arguments to ./test.

Tests can be run with a specific Python version by running ./test --version <version> - for example, ./test --version 3.4.3.

When finished with testing, it is good to shut down the virtual machine by running vagrant halt.