Cricket

Cricket a graphical tool that helps you run your test suites.

Normal unittest test runners dump all output to the console, and provide very little detail while the suite is running. As a result:

• You can't start looking at failures until the test suite has completed running,
• It isn't a very accessible format for identifying patterns in test failures,
• It can be hard (or cumbersome) to re-run any tests that have failed.

Why the name cricket? Test Cricket is the most prestigious version of the game of cricket. Games last for up to 5 days... just like running some test suites. The usual approach for making cricket watchable is a generous dose of beer; in programming, Balmer Peak limits come into effect, so something else is required...

Quickstart

At present, Cricket only has support for Django project test suites.

In your Django project, install cricket, and then run it:

$ pip install cricket
$ python -m cricket.django

This will pop up a GUI window. Hit "Run all", and watch your test suite execute. A progress bar is displayed in the bottom right hand corner of the window, along with an estimate of time remaining.

While the suite is running, you can click on test names to see the output of that test. If the test passed, it will be displayed in green; other test results will be shown in other colors.