Yes. I will search some tests that will be use mock! Thank you for the answer!
Alessia Il lun 19 mar 2018, 15:11 Federico Capoano <[email protected]> ha scritto: > in 2014 we tried to run tests by connecting to real devices, that makes it > impossible to run the test suite on travis-ci and also makes it very hard > for new contributors to run the tests because they have to have all the > hardware needed to run the tests, which is very unpractical. > > For mocking, we mean this: > https://realpython.com/blog/python/testing-third-party-apis-with-mocks/ > It means using the standard mock library of python to temporarily replace > methods that perform external calls with simulations that behave in the > same way but are just simulated. > So if you perform an HTTP request and you expect a JSON response like > {"detail": "success"}, you mock the method which performs the request so it > returns that value without even performing the request. > > Is it clear now? > > Federico > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 11:15 AM Alessia Ventani <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Good afternoon, >> >> I'm writing the draft for the netengine project. What does it mean: "mock >> all external network calls during tests (SSH, HTTP, SNMP)"? >> Will I report some examples of tests where it's useful use mock or simply >> the library that I will use? >> >> thank you, >> Alessia Ventani >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "OpenWISP" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "OpenWISP" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/openwisp/4C8a9Yck6CM/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenWISP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
