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Testing

This chapter describes how to run various tests locally in a development environment, guidelines for writing tests, and information regarding the continuous testing infrastructure.

Running Tests Locally

Before attempting to run Panel tests, make sure you have successfully run through all of the instructions in the :ref:`devguide_setup` section of the Developer's Guide.

Test Selection

Currently Panel uses linting and two types of tests regular unit tests which are run with pytest and notebook example tests run with nbsmoke:

To run flake checking use:

doit test_flakes

To run unit tests use:

doit test_unit

To run example smoke tests use:

doit test_examples

Integration tests

Writing Tests

In order to help keep Panel maintainable, all Pull Requests that touch code should normally be accompanied by relevant tests. While exceptions may be made for specific circumstances, the default assumption should be that a Pull Request without tests may not be merged.

Python Unit Tests

Python unit tests maintain the basic functionality of the Python portion of the Panel library. A few general guidelines will help you write Python unit tests:

absolute imports

In order to ensure that Panel's unit tests as relocatable and unambiguous as possible, always prefer absolute imports in test files. When convenient, import and use the entire module under test:

  • GOOD: import panel.widgets
  • GOOD: from panel.layout import Column
  • BAD: from ..models.widgets import Player
pytest
All new tests should use and assume pytest for test running, fixtures, parameterized testing, etc. New tests should not use the unittest module of the Python standard library.

Continuous Integration

Every push to the master branch or any Pull Request branch on GitHub automatically triggers a full test build on the GitHub Actions continuous integration service. This is most often useful for running the full Panel test suite continuously, but also triggers automated scripts for publishing releases when a tagged branch is pushed.

You can see the list of all current and previous builds at this URL: https://github.com/holoviz/panel/actions

Configuration

There are a number of files that affect the build configuration:

  • .github/worksflows/test.yaml
    Defines the build matrix and global configurations for the stages described below.
  • conda.recipe/meta.yaml
    Instructions for building a conda noarch package for Panel.
  • setup.py
    Used to build sdist packages and "dev" installs. This file is the single source of truth of all dependencies.
  • tox.ini
    Contains the configuration for the doit commands .

Etiquette

GitHub Actions provides free build workers to Open Source projects. A few considerations will help you be considerate of others needing these limited resources:

  • Group commits into meaningful chunks of work before pushing to GitHub (i.e. don't push on every commit).
  • If you must make multiple commits in succession, navigate to GitHub Actions and cancel all but the last build, in order to free up build workers.