Testing

[ftisiot]

What is currently missing?

As of now there's no testing apart from running the src/create_services.sh script, run the code, and check visually the output.
Some more testing is needed to validate changes

Is this a feature you would work on yourself?

• I plan to open a pull request for this feature

[inifares23lab]

Hi I started looking into some more little issues already (#25,#28,#56)
after those I would like to start on this.

Python is not my "mother toungue" 😅 and I never really wrote tests for a real project in python so I would like to practice here.

I was thinking of using pytest

[ftisiot]

That would be amazing! @TibsAtWork any suggestions regarding pytest?

[TibsAtWork]

I like pytest, so would think it's a good place to start.

I'd probably start by creating the tests directory and just writing that first test, choosing whatever looks not-too-hard to test. That alone would be a good contribution 😄

Writing tests can lead to fairly interactive PRs anyway (where the PR writer asks for opinions of the other contributors, and it goes around several cycles of review) so it makes good sense as a learning task.

Also, trying to write tests for a project that doesn't have them will often lead to refactoring the existing code to make it easier to test, so don't be afraid to raise issues that are like "this part of the code is hard to test, can we refactor it to make it do/not do XXX instead". Refactoring of this type is often a good way of making the code easier to understand as well.

Later on, there's the option of integrating it with the CI toolchain, but initially just having testing set up at all would be great.