Testing the plugin

Tests are written in 2 separate folders:

  • tests/unit: testing code which is independent of QGIS API

  • tests/qgis: testing code which depends on QGIS API

Requirements

  • 3.10 < QGIS < 3.99

python -m pip install -U -r requirements/testing.txt

Run unit tests

# run all tests with PyTest and Coverage report
python -m pytest

# run only unit tests with pytest launcher (disabling pytest-qgis)
python -m pytest -p no:qgis tests/unit

# run only QGIS tests with pytest launcher
python -m pytest tests/qgis

# run a specific test module using standard unittest
python -m unittest tests.unit.test_plg_metadata

# run a specific test function using standard unittest
python -m unittest tests.unit.test_plg_metadata.TestPluginMetadata.test_version_semver