Frequency Asked Questions#

The following Frequency Answer Questions are general and not operating system specific.

  1. Configure PyCharm to auto-complete Xmera commands and provide module variables, see the PyCharm Support web page.

  2. How do I run pytest to ensure all unit and integrated tests still pass

    The following response assumes you have the Xmera soure code. You need to install the python utility pytest if this is not available on your system. Instructions are found at installOptionalPackages. Next, navigate to the folder Xmera\src and run pytest from there.

  3. How can I run pytest faster?

    One can distribute python tests across multiple processes. This is achieved with the pytest-xdist package using:

    pip3 install pytest-xdist

    After installing this package you can now pytest such that it distribute tests across multi-processes. pytest for 8 processes using:

    python3 -m pytest -n 8

    or replace 8 with either the number of processors (virtual or otherwise) of your host machine, or “auto” to use all available processors.

  4. How can I used pytest to generate a Xmera validation HTML report?

    You will need to install pytest-html package, see installOptionalPackages. Then you can do this with:

    python3 -m pytest --report

    This generates an HTML report in a local tests/report folder.

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