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Testing for Developers

If you're a CKAN developer, if you're developing an extension for CKAN, or if you're just installing CKAN from source, you should make sure that CKAN's tests pass for your copy of CKAN. This section explains how to run CKAN's tests.

Installing Additional Dependencies

Some additional dependencies are needed to run the tests. Make sure you've created a config file at ~/pyenv/ckan/development.ini, then activate your virtual environment:

. ~/pyenv/bin/activate

Install nose and other test-specific CKAN dependencies into your virtual environment:

pip install -r ~/pyenv/src/ckan/pip-requirements-test.txt

Testing with SQLite

To run the CKAN tests using SQLite as the database library:

cd ~/pyenv/src/ckan
nosetests --ckan ckan

You must run the tests from the CKAN directory as shown above, otherwise the --ckan plugin won't work correctly.

In deployment CKAN uses PostgreSQL, not SQLite. Running the tests with SQLite is less thorough but much quicker than with PostgreSQL, good enough for an initial check but you should run the tests with PostgreSQL before deploying anything or releasing any code.

Testing Core Extensions

CKAN's core extensions (those extensions that are kept in the CKAN codebase alongside CKAN itself) have their own tests. For example, to run the tests for the stats extension do:

nosetests --ckan ckanext/stats

To run the tests for all of the core extensions at once:

nosetests --ckan ckanext

Or to run the CKAN tests and the core extensions tests together:

nosetests --ckan ckan ckanext

Testing with PostgreSQL

Starting in CKAN 2.1 tests are run in a separate postgres database by default. You should create the test databases as follows.:

sudo -u postgres createdb -O ckanuser ckan_test -E utf-8
sudo -u postgres createdb -O ckanuser ckan_test_datastore -E utf-8

This database connection is specified in the test-core.ini file by the sqlalchemy.url parameter.

CKAN's default nose configuration file (test.ini) specifies SQLite as the database library (it also sets faster_db_test_hacks). To run the tests more thoroughly with PostgreSQL, specify the test-core.ini nose configuration file instead, for example:

nosetests --ckan --with-pylons=test-core.ini ckan
nosetests --ckan --with-pylons=test-core.ini ckanext/stats
nosetests --ckan --with-pylons=test-core.ini ckanext
nosetests --ckan --with-pylons=test-core.ini ckan ckanext

The speed of the PostgreSQL tests can be improved by running PostgreSQL in memory and turning off durability, as described in the PostgreSQL documentation.

Migration Testing

If you're a CKAN developer or extension developer and your new code requires a change to CKAN's model, you'll need to write a migration script. To ensure that the migration script itself gets tested, you should run the tests with they --ckan-migration option, for example:

nosetests --ckan --ckan-migration --with-pylons=test-core.ini ckan

By default tests are run using the model defined in ckan/model. With the --ckan-migration option the tests will run using a database that has been created by running the migration scripts in ckan/migration, which is how the database is created and upgraded in production.

Common error messages

Consult common-error-messages for solutions to a range of setup problems.