Simplified Developer Testing Setup

[omad]

Summary

At the moment, it's too hard for developers to run the integration tests for ODC. This presents a significant barrier to entry for new contributors, and is a big waste of time even for experienced ODC developers.

The biggest requirement hurdle is having a PostgreSQL server running locally in the background for the integration tests to connect to.

Proposal

I think a good solution would be to use pytest-docker to create a pytest fixture to start a stop a local PostgreSQL server instance using docker, whenever the integration tests are run.

The downside is added a development dependency on Docker. I think Docker is common enough in 2022 that this will still be a win for new and existing developers.

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