[SciPy-dev] tests for scipy.integrate

[Arnd Baecker]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Nils Wagner wrote:

[...]

> I am not familiar with writing tests. However I have attached a small
> example,

Hi Nils,

I also have no experience in writing unittests, but it
seems pretty straightforward.
For example looking at scipy/Lib/linalg/tests/test_basic.py
suggests that  one has to
a) create a subdirectory called `tests`
b) add a test file `test_<something>.py`, e.g. `test_simple.py`
   which contains

#################################################
import scipy.base as Numeric
from scipy.base import arange, add, array, dot, zeros, identity

import sys
from scipy.test.testing import *
set_package_path()
# adapt the following ones accordingly:
from linalg import solve,inv,det,lstsq, toeplitz, hankel, tri, triu, tril
from linalg import pinv, pinv2, solve_banded
restore_path()

import unittest


class test_routine1(ScipyTestCase):
    """ Collection of tests for routine1"""

    def check_trivial(self):
        """do some test giving a scalar"""
        result=
        known_result=
        assert_almost_equal(result,known_result)

    def check_simple(self):
        """do some test giving an array"""
        result=
        known_result=
        assert_array_almost_equal(result,known_result)


class test_routine2(ScipyTestCase):
    """ Collection of tests for routine2"""

    def check_trivial(self):
        """do some test giving a scalar"""
        result=
        known_result=
        assert_almost_equal(result,known_result)

    def check_simple(self):
        """do some test giving an array"""
        result=
        known_result=
        assert_array_almost_equal(result,known_result)

    def check_extensive(self,level=10):
        """do some more heavy test giving an array"""
        result=
        known_result=
        assert_array_almost_equal(result,known_result)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    ScipyTest().run()

####################

Note that the above is untested  - good luck ;-)
For other assert_xxx see scipy.test.testing.

Best, Arnd