[QGIS-Developer] Testing QGIS Plugin

[shiva reddy]

Hi,
It is now clear that mock interface is helpful  in testing plugin.
But now , can we list step by step documentation  for starters like me.


Thanks & Regards
Shiva Reddy K.
Scientist/Engineer 'SE’
Indian Institute of Remote Sensing,
Indian Space Research Organisation
Department of Space
4-Kalidas Road
Dehradun
mobile: 0135-2524126



On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 at 17:03, Etienne Trimaille <etienne.trimaille at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sorry, I was mainly thinking about this one :
> https://github.com/g-sherman/Qgis-Plugin-Builder/blob/master/test/qgis_interface.py
> We can find it in many plugins.
> Is it still needed ?
>
> I totally agree, the mock iface provided by QGIS core is still useful!
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/python/testing/mocked.py#L37
>
> Le lun. 23 mars 2020 à 12:26, Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch> a
> écrit :
>
>> Hi Etienne,
>>
>> I partially but respectfully disagree. I agree that other tools are
>> better for this use case. But a mock (dummy) interface is still a valid
>> tool to check which API's are called how many times and in which way on a
>> headless testing server / CI. Also on QGIS 3.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>>
>> On 3/23/20 12:11 PM, Etienne Trimaille wrote:
>>
>> The dummy interface was mainly with QGIS 2. You don't need it anymore.
>>
>> You can read :
>> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/tree/master/.docker
>>
>> I will try to make a PR on qgis about Docker this week about some notes I
>> have.
>>
>> Le lun. 23 mars 2020 à 11:48, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>>> What I found on the internet involves creating a dummy interface, which
>>> is great if you want to do Continuous Integration and such, but this wasn't
>>> the way I wanted to test. I wanted to be able to see what was happening
>>> right there in the live GUI.
>>>
>>> It took a while before I discovered that there is a mini editor in the
>>> Python console. Now I'm launching my test code from there and this works
>>> great. QTest allows me to press buttons or enter values and unit testing
>>> allows me to verify it's all as expected.
>>>
>>> I can show you in about half an hour, if you're available, or later.
>>>
>>> Jo
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 11:15 AM shiva reddy <kotishiva at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sure.
>>>>
>>>> Looking forward to it.
>>>> Thanks & Regards
>>>> Shiva Reddy K.
>>>> Scientist/Engineer 'SE’
>>>> Indian Institute of Remote Sensing,
>>>> Indian Space Research Organisation
>>>> Department of Space
>>>> 4-Kalidas Road
>>>> Dehradun
>>>> mobile: 0135-2524126
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 at 15:38, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been advancing a bit on the testing topic. I'll gladly do a
>>>>> Googe Hangout with you. We can probably learn from each other.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jo
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 11:01 AM shiva reddy <kotishiva at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> Due to ongoing COVID 19 situation , I get unique opportunity for
>>>>>> refine my skills by incorporating best practices into my open source
>>>>>> projects.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In this line, I would like to develop test cases  for my QGIS plugin.
>>>>>> Any idea , reference or any mentor who can guide me through this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My plugin name is QRealTime.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks & Regards
>>>>>> Shiva Reddy K.
>>>>>> Scientist/Engineer 'SE’
>>>>>> Indian Institute of Remote Sensing,
>>>>>> Indian Space Research Organisation
>>>>>> Department of Space
>>>>>> 4-Kalidas Road
>>>>>> Dehradun
>>>>>> mobile: 0135-2524126
>>>>>>
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