[pgadmin4][patch] Change testing framework to pytest and grappa - Mailing list pgadmin-hackers

Attached you can find a patch that converts 3 unit test files to pytest and grappa. This patch is a first step on to this migration.

We started this work because in our regular development we do TDD and with the current setup we cannot run a single test or even a group of tests, the minimum about is always a packages that can  contain 1 test or 10. This makes the Red - Green - Refactor cycle(http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2014/12/17/TheCyclesOfTDD.html) much harder and longer then it should be. 

Also running tests in parallel was not possible, even if they were against different databases.

After some investigation we found a couple of options to replace the current setup and pytest looked like a good fit the only issue was the it did not had a assertions library. For that we found a library called grappa that is actively maintained and have a nice syntax to it.

0001 Patch contains the configuration files for pytests and also the 3 files that we converted to start using pytest + grappa

What do we know

 - This converting will need a change in the way we run the tests in CI

 - not all tests were converted, this is just a wip to see what people think about this new framework

 - Support for running the same test suite against multiple databases in a single task, can be done, but we would have to add more code and we believe there is a better way to accomplish this

For the CI we envision something similar the picture below

In the middle we run 2 separate tasks one that runs the karma tests+js linter and another one that lints the python code.

If everything looks good, then we run the boxes the the left, each box represent a combination of database + python version.

We believe that using concouse or even jenkins we can achieve this making the tests run in parallel for all environments and databases. The newer versions of Jenkins have a pipeline DSL language that would allow us to create pipelines like this one we have in concourse.

Ask

 - Take a look at the new assertions syntax

 - Give us your thoughts about this new CI structure

Thanks

Anthony & Joao