Testing in GeoNode

The community encourages the Test Driven Development (TDD) and the contribution to write new tests to extend the coverage. Ideally every model, view, and utility should becovered by tests.

GeoNode has Unit, Integration and Javascript tests. The Unit tests are located in the tests file of every django app (Maps, Layers, Documents, Catalogue, Search, Security etc).

The Integration, CSW and smoke tests are located under the tests folder).

Warning

The tests are meant to be ran using the SQLite database, some of them may fail using PostgreSQL or others. Therefore remove or rename your local_settings.py file before running the tests.

If running them in development mode make sure to have the jetty server

shut down otherwise the test could get stuck. To make sure it is run:

$ paver stop

Unit Tests

To run the unit tests make sure you have the virtualenv active (if running GeoNode under virtualenv) then run:

$ paver test # or python setup.py test when testing development versions

This will produce a detailed test report.

It’s possible to run just specific apps tests by using the django command:

$ python manage.py test app/tests.py

For example:

$ python manage.py test geonode.maps.tests

To run a single testcase or method (omit the method name to run the whole class), for example:

$ python manage.py test geonode.maps.tests:MapsTest.test_maps_search

These tests are based on the Python/django unit test suite.

Integration Tests

To run the unit tests make sure you have the virtualenv active (if running GeoNode under virtualenv) then run:

$ paver test_integration # or python setup.py test_integration when testing development versions

To run the csw integration test run:

$ paver test_integration -n geonode.tests.csw

Like the unit tests above, it is also possible to test specific modules, for example:

$ paver test_integration -n geonode.tests.integration:GeoNodeMapTest.test_search_result_detail

To test with with coverage:

$ python manage.py test  geonode.maps.tests -- --with-coverage --cover-package=geonode.maps

These tests are based on the Python/django unit test suite.

Javascript Tests

Note

Javascript tests has been currently disabled in GeoNode. There is a plan to improve and re-enable them in the future.