cg-pytest-reporter

A Pytest reporter plugin for CodeGrade AutoTest v2.

This plugin writes messages to CodeGrade AutoTest v2's structured output channel. For each test that was run a unit-test message is written as described in CodeGrade's documentation. When all tests have finished running, a final message is written with the amount of points that were achieved in the test run.

Utility functions

This plugin comes with a few utility functions to easily modify certain aspects of each test case or test suite. All of these are decorators that you can apply directly to your test functions or classes.

Test suite decorators

These decorators change properties of an entire test suite. In terms of Pytest that is a single file containing test functions, or a single class within such a file.

suite_name

With the suite_name you can modify the name of a test suite that will be displayed in the AutoTest v2 UI.

from cg_pytest_reporter import suite_name


@suite_name('My Test Suite')
class TestSuite:
    def test_function():
        assert True

Because it is not possible to decorate an entire module, it is possible to change the name of the module-level suite by setting the __cg_suite_name__ variable on the module.

__cg_suite_name__ = 'My Test Suite'


def test_function():
    assert True

suite_weight

Use the suite_weight decorator to change the weight of an entire suite relative to other suites in your test run.

from cg_pytest_reporter import suite_weight


@suite_weight(2)
class TestSuite:
    def test_function():
        assert True

Similar to the suite name, you can set the weight of the module-level suite with the __cg_suite_weight__ variable.

__cg_suite_weight__ = 2


def test_function():
    assert True

Test function decorators

These decorators modify the behaviour of a single test case.

Although they work on the test case level, they can be applied to a class containing test functions. This works as if the decorator was applied to each test function individually, but each decorator can still be overridden on individual test cases. It is mentioned on each of the decorators where this might be useful.

name

With the name decorator you can change the name of a single test case.

from cg_pytest_reporter import name


@name('My Cool Test')
def test_function():
    assert True

description

With the description decorator you can set a description for a single test case. This can be useful if the name of the test function is not descriptive enough.

from cg_pytest_reporter import description


@description('A somewhat longer description of what is being tested.')
def test_function():
    assert True

weight

Change the weight of a single test function relative to other test functions within the same suite.

from cg_pytest_reporter import weight


@weight(2)
def test_function():
    assert True

This decorator can also be applied to a test class, in which case it will set a default weight for all tests within that class which can still be overridden for individual tests within that class. This can be useful for example if you want most tests within a class not to count towards the score.

from cg_pytest_reporter import weight


@weight(0)
class TestClass:
    # This test case will have a weight of 0 applied, and as such will not count
    # towards the achieved score.
    def test_function():
        assert True

    # This test case will still count towards the score with the default weight
    # of 1.
    @weight(1)
    def test_something_else():
        assert True

reason

Change the reason of failure of the test case. This can be used to give students a hint where their code is likely to break.

from cg_pytest_reporter import reason

from fibonacci import fibonacci


@reason('Did you start counting at the correct index? (off-by-one error)')
def test_fibonacci():
    assert fibonacci(10) == 55

hide_stdout

When a test fails, the stdout that was written while the test was running is sent along with the result. With the hide_stdout decorator you can prevent the stdout from being sent.

from cg_pytest_reporter import hide_stdout


# The string "Hello World!" that was printed to `stdout` will not be sent along
# with the results.
@hide_stdout
def test_failure():
    print('Hello World!')
    assert False

This decorator can also be applied to a test class to hide the stdout of each test case within it.

from cg_pytest_reporter import hide_stdout


@hide_stdout
class TestClass:
    def test_failure():
        print('Hello World!')
        assert False

    def test_ok():
        print('Hello World!')

hide_stderr

This works the same as hide_stdout except that it will hide the stderr channel instead.

import sys

from cg_pytest_reporter import hide_stderr


# The string "Hello World!" that was printed to `stderr` will not be sent along
# with the results.
@hide_stderr
def test_failure():
    print('Hello World!', file=sys.stderr)
    assert False

This decorator can also be applied to a test class to hide the stderr of each test case within it.

import sys

from cg_pytest_reporter import hide_stderr


@hide_stderr
class TestClass:
    def test_failure():
        print('Hello World!', file=sys.stderr)
        assert False

    def test_ok():
        print('Hello World!', file=sys.stderr)

hide_output

A combined version of hide_stdout and hide_stderr.

import sys

from cg_pytest_reporter import hide_output


# The string "Hello World!" that was printed to `stdout` or `stderr` will not be
# sent along with the results.
@hide_output
def test_failure():
    print('Hello World!')
    print('Hello World!', file=sys.stderr)
    assert False

This decorator can also be applied to a test class to hide the output of each test case within it.

import sys

from cg_pytest_reporter import hide_output


@hide_output
class TestClass:
    def test_failure():
        print('Hello World!', file=sys.stderr)
        assert False

    def test_ok():
        print('Hello World!')