arewm / tappy

Python Test Anything Protocol (TAP) tools

tappy

tappy is a set of tools for working with the Test Anything Protocol (TAP) in Python. TAP is a line based test protocol for recording test data in a standard way.

Full documentation for tappy is at Read the Docs. The information below provides a synopsis of what tappy supplies.

For the curious: tappy sounds like "happy."

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Installation

tappy is available for download from PyPI. tappy is currently supported on Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, and PyPy. It is continuously tested on Linux, OS X, and Windows.

$ pip install tap.py

For testing with pytest, you only need to install pytest-tap.

$ pip install pytest-tap

For testing with nose, you only need to install nose-tap.

$ pip install nose-tap

Motivation

Some projects have mixed programming environments with many programming languages and tools. Because of TAP's simplicity, it can function as a lingua franca for testing. When every testing tool can create TAP, a team can get a holistic view of their system. Python did not have a bridge from unittest to TAP so it was difficult to integrate a Python test suite into a larger TAP ecosystem.

tappy is Python's bridge to TAP.

Goals

1. Provide TAP Producers which translate Python's unittest into TAP.
2. Provide a TAP Consumer which reads TAP and provides a programmatic API in Python or generates summary results.
3. Provide a command line interface for reading TAP.

Producers

• TAPTestRunner - This subclass of unittest.TextTestRunner provides all the functionality of TextTestRunner and generates TAP files.
• tappy for nose - nose-tap provides a plugin for the nose testing tool.
• tappy for pytest - pytest-tap provides a plugin for the pytest testing tool.

Consumers

• tappy - A command line tool for processing TAP files.
• Loader and Parser - Python APIs for handling of TAP files and data.

Contributing

The project welcomes contributions of all kinds. Check out the contributing guidelines for tips on how to get started.