Specify which test to run about cadasta-test

[shailysangwan]

Can I work on this?

[linzjax]

Hi @shailysangwan, you are welcome to work on this if you would like. If this is for an application, per our contribution guidelines we'll need to outline how you would approach this issue first. As a forewarning, this repo isn't as well monitored as cadasta-platform, so response time might be slower.

If it's not for an application, you can skip that step and go for it!

[shailysangwan]

@linzjax Thanks, this is for the application.
Are those guidelines specific to the first contribution or for all contributions?

[linzjax]

@shailysangwan They're for any contribution associated with an application for this round of Outreachy and GSoC. It allows us to work through the details of someone's approach in the early stages of their work, instead of at the PR stage. It also gives us a chance to see the way you approach problems.

[shailysangwan]

@linzjax I plan on using argparse to invoke tests depending on the command line arguments.

So, I think we will have to restructure the way test suites are formed, so as to keep a track of individual tests and category tests to support the requirement of this issue and make the code fit well for use with argparse.

The user executes run.py.
It imports the folder selenium_tests, which imports all categories through the import statements in __init.py__.
Those import statements import all test files in the respective category folders' __init.py__ files.

And in each of those test files is a list of test cases.

Do tell me if this looks acceptable.

run.py

import unittest
import selenium_tests

suite = {c: [] for c in getattr(selenium_tests, "categories")}

for c in suite:
	category = getattr(selenium_tests, c)
	for f in getattr(category, "files"):
		file = getattr(category, f)
		for t in getattr(file, "tests"):
			suite[c].append(unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromTestCase(getattr(file, t)))

for c in suite:
	unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=2).run(unittest.TestSuite(suite[c]))

[linzjax]

That seems reasonable to me. Go for it!

[seav]

Specifying tests can already be done in a limited manner using the script. See the docs for more information.