Hitch

Hitch is a UNIX-based testing framework for writing integration tests with an emphasis on:

• Minimizing and eliminating brittle tests
• Test readability
• Loose coupling
• Test realism
• Tests that fail fast and fail clearly

Available plugins

Hitch comes with a variety of plugins to aid you to realistically testing various kinds of software, components and scenarios, including:

• Python (includes Django and Celery service definitions)
• Postgresql
• Redis
• Web apps (using selenium)
• Command line apps (using pexpect)
• Cron
• MySQL
• RabbitMQ
• Elastic Search

Plugin documentation

Getting started

See the quickstart tutorial on how to get started testing an existing project.

Also check out cookiecutter-django if you want to start a new Django project with tests.

Status

Hitch is currently in beta.

It is regression tested on:

• Operating Systems : Mac OS X Yosemite, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and Arch Linux.
• Python versions : 3.5.0, 3.4.3, 3.4.0 and 3.3.0 (what about python 2?)

It does not currently work on Windows.

See tested on for more details on how the framework is tested (with itself, naturally).

Contents of this project

This project contains:

• The code for the bootstrapper script
• Documentation for the whole project (hosted at readthedocs)
• Code for other components is at: https://github.com/hitchtest/