Testsuite documentation

This document explains the pyudev test suite and how to add new tests to this suite.

The pyudev testsuite uses the powerful pytest unittest framework, accompied by the nice mock library for mocking native functions and heavily extended with plugins to support the tests.

• Test running
  • Automatic execution using tox
  • Manual execution
  • Notes
    • Device samples
    • Privileged tests
    • Native bindings
• plugins – Testsuite plugins
  • udev_database – pytest plugin to access the udev device database
    • Test markers
    • Configuration values
    • Funcargs
    • Command line options
  • privileged – Privileged operations
    • Command line options
    • Configuration
    • pytest namespace
  • fake_monitor – A fake Monitor
    • Funcargs
  • mock_libudev – Mock calls to libudev
  • libudev – Parse libudev.h
    • Configuration values
    • Funcargs
    • Types