Eve runs under Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.3 and PyPy. Therefore tests will be run in those four platforms in our continuous integration server.

The easiest way to get started is to run the tests in your local environment with:

$ python setup.py test

If you want you can run a single module, say the methods suite:

$ python setup.py test -s eve.tests.methods

Or, to run only the get tests:

$ python setup.py test -s eve.tests.methods.get

You can also choose to just run a single class:

$ python setup.py test -s eve.tests.methods.get.TestGetItem

Or even a single class function:

$ python setup.py test -s eve.tests.methods.get.TestGetItem.test_expires

Install the required dependencies for running tests and building documentation by running

$ pip install -r dev-requirements.txt

Before you submit a pull request, make sure your tests and changes run in all supported python versions: 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 and PyPy. Instead of creating all those environments by hand, Eve uses tox.

Make sure you have all required python versions installed and run:

$ pip install tox  # First time only
$ tox

This might take some time the first run as the different virtual environments are created and dependencies are installed. If everything is ok, you will see the following:

_________ summary _________
py26: commands succeeded
py27: commands succeeded
py33: commands succeeded
py34: commands succeeded
py35: commands succeeded
pypy: commands succeeded
flake8: commands succeeded
congratulations :)

If something goes wrong and one test fails, you might need to run that test in the specific python version. You can use the created environments to run some specific tests. For example, if a test suite fails in Python 3.4:

# From the project folder
$ tox -e py34 -- -s eve.tests.methods.get.TestGetItem

You also choose to run the whole test suite using pytest:

# Run the whole test suite
$ py.test

# Run all tests in the 'methods' folder
$ py.test eve/tests/methods

# Run all the tests named 'TestEvents'
$ py.test -k TestEvents

# Run the specific test class
$ py.test eve/tests/methods/get.py::TestEvents

# Run the specific test
$ py.test eve/tests/auth.py::TestBasicAuth::test_custom_auth

You can use pytest from tox, but you will need to install it in the tox environments before using it.

$ .tox/py26/bin/pip install pytest
$ .tox/py26/bin/py.test

Please note that, just for my own convenience, the pytest.ini file is currently set up in such a way that any test run will abort after two failures. Also, if you are a Vim user (you should), you might want to check out the awesome pytest.vim plugin.

While there are no test requirements for most of the suite, please be advised that in order to execute the :ref:`ratelimiting` tests you need a running Redis server, and redispy must be installed. The Rate-Limiting tests are silently skipped if any of the two conditions are not met.

Redispy will install automatically on the first test run, or you can install it yourself with

$ pip install redis

Each time code is pushed to either the develop or the master branch the whole test-suite is executed on Travis-CI. This is also the case for pull-requests. When a pull request is submitted and the CI run fails two things happen: a 'the build is broken' email is sent to the submitter; the request is rejected. The contributor can then fix the code, add one or more commits as needed, and push again.

The CI will also run flake8 so make sure that your code complies to PEP8 before submitting a pull request, or be prepared to be mail-spammed by CI.

Please note that in practice you're only supposed to submit pull requests against the develop branch, see :ref:`contributing`.

Eve uses Sphinx for its documentation. To build the documentation locally, switch to the docs folder and run

$ make html

This will generate html documentation in the folder ~/code/eve.docs/html, which can be overridden with the BUILDDIR make variable

$ make html BUILDDIR=/path/to/docs

Make sure Sphinx reports no errors or warnings when running the above.

To preview the documentation open index.html in the build directory

$ open /path/to/docs/index.html

Alternatively switch to the build directory, start a local webserver

$ python3 -m http.server

and then point your browser at localhost:8000.