Config Reference

dectest is designed to be highly configurable, and as such it has many configuration nodes. Each option is listed below.

Note

You may hear the term “python name”. The python name of something (as defined by me) is the full module name, followed by the location of the object inside that module. So for example, the function abspath in the os.path module would have the python name of os.path.abspath

The testing section

The testing configuration section is probabaly the largest, as it deals with dectest’s primary function.

runtests

Name	Type	Default
runtests	boolean	True

This option controls if tests are run at all. If this option is False, then calling an untested method will not test it, and manually calling testing methods will not run the tests either.

testasrun

Name	Type	Default
testasrun	boolean	True

The testasrun option controls wether or not dectest tests functions as they are run, or if it just waits untill the user/application calls the test() method.

sideaffects

Name	Type	Default
sideaffects	list of str	[]

This options dictates which side affect tests are activated. It should be a list of the python names of the side affect tests. dectest will import each class and make it availible at the attribute of TestClass with a name equal to the value of the name attribute of the side affect class.

pretest

Name	Type	Default
pretest	str	‘’

The pretest option is the python name of a function that will be run before any tests are run. This option is globally enforced, and will allways be called before a test is run.

posttest

Name	Type	Default
posttest	str	‘’

The reverse of the pretest option; a function that will be run after any tests are run.