Running the Test Suite

django-treebeard includes a comprehensive test suite. It is highly recommended that you run and update the test suite when you send patches.

pytest

You will need pytest to run the test suite:

$ pip install pytest

Then just run the test suite:

$ pytest

You can use all the features and plugins of pytest this way.

By default the test suite will run using a sqlite3 database in RAM, but you can change this setting environment variables:

DATABASE_USER
DATABASE_PASSWORD
DATABASE_HOST
DATABASE_USER_POSTGRES
DATABASE_PORT_POSTGRES
DATABASE_USER_MYSQL
DATABASE_PORT_MYSQL

Sets the database settings to be used by the test suite. Useful if you want to test the same database engine/version you use in production.

tox

django-treebeard uses tox to run the test suite in all the supported environments - permutations of:

  • Python 3.8 - 3.11

  • Django 3.2, 4.0 and 4.1

  • Sqlite, MySQL, PostgreSQL and MSSQL

This means that there are a lot of permutations, which takes a long time. If you want to test only one or a few environments, use the -e option in tox, like:

$ tox -e py39-dj32-postgres