Run and write tests

All functionality in orix is tested with pytest. The tests reside in a tests module. Tests are short methods that call functions in orix and compare resulting output values with known answers. Install necessary dependencies to run the tests:

pip install --editable .[tests]

If you get an error message running the above in a zsh shell, try wrapping the last part in a string, like '.[tests]'.

Some useful fixtures are available in the conftest.py file.

Note

Some orix.data module tests check that data not part of the package distribution can be downloaded from the web, thus downloading some small datasets to your local cache. See the section on the data module for more details.

To run the tests:

pytest --cov --pyargs orix

The --cov flag makes coverage.py prints a nice report in the terminal. For an even nicer presentation, you can use coverage.py directly:

coverage html

Then, you can open the created htmlcov/index.html in the browser and inspect the coverage in more detail.

Docstring examples are tested with pytest as well. numpy and matplotlib.pyplot should not be imported in examples as they are already available in the namespace as np and plt, respectively. The docstring tests can be run from the top directory:

pytest --doctest-modules --ignore-glob=orix/tests orix/*.py

Tips for writing tests of Numba decorated functions:

• A Numba decorated function numba_func() is only covered if it is called in the test as numba_func.py_func().

• Always test a Numba decorated function calling numba_func() directly, in addition to numba_func.py_func(), because the machine code function might give different results on different OS with the same Python code.