Testing

Tests are driven through make from the repository root. Python tests are the default and live in tests/ as test_*.py; C++ tests live in gtests/ as test_nopython_*.cpp and are reserved for behaviour that cannot or should not be reached from Python.

• make pytest – run the full Python test suite.

• make pytest PYTEST_OPTS="tests/test_buffer.py::SimpleArrayBasicTC" – forward options verbatim to pytest to run a subset.

• make run_pilot_pytest – Python tests that need the pilot GUI.

• make gtest – build and run the full C++ test suite.

• make pyprof – run the profiling benchmarks (see Profiling).

After make gtest has built the binary, a single C++ test can be run directly:

./build/rel<pyvminor>/gtests/run_gtest --gtest_filter=Suite.Test

where <pyvminor> is the active Python major and minor version, e.g. 314.