bdd tests: get rid of dependency on build path

[nominatim.git] / docs / develop / Testing.md

diff --git a/docs/develop/Testing.md b/docs/develop/Testing.md
index 7990bf9e9232f31b876a887e57bf82448515c97a..aeaca2ee818a84addcae57dc60e9388f03277c11 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/develop/Testing.md
+++ b/docs/develop/Testing.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ There are two kind of tests in this test suite. There are functional tests
 which test the API interface using a BDD test framework and there are unit
 tests for specific PHP functions.
 
-This test directory is sturctured as follows:
+This test directory is structured as follows:
 
 ```
  -+-   bdd         Functional API tests
@@ -21,14 +21,15 @@ This test directory is sturctured as follows:
   | +-  api        Tests for API endpoints (search, reverse, etc.)
   |
   +-   php         PHP unit tests
-  +-   scenes      Geometry test data
+  +-   python      Python unit tests
   +-   testdb      Base data for generating API test database
+  +-   testdata    Additional test data used by unit tests
 ```
 
 ## PHP Unit Tests (`test/php`)
 
-Unit tests can be found in the php/ directory. They test selected php functions.
-Very low coverage.
+Unit tests for PHP code can be found in the `php/` directory. They test selected
+PHP functions. Very low coverage.
 
 To execute the test suite run
 
@@ -36,11 +37,26 @@ To execute the test suite run
     UNIT_TEST_DSN='pgsql:dbname=nominatim_unit_tests' phpunit ../
 
 It will read phpunit.xml which points to the library, test path, bootstrap
-strip and set other parameters.
+strip and sets other parameters.
 
 It will use (and destroy) a local database 'nominatim_unit_tests'. You can set
 a different connection string with e.g. UNIT_TEST_DSN='pgsql:dbname=foo_unit_tests'.
 
+## Python Unit Tests (`test/python`)
+
+Unit tests for Python code can be found in the `python/` directory. The goal is
+to have complete coverage of the Python library in `nominatim`.
+
+To execute the tests run
+
+    py.test-3 test/python
+
+or
+
+    pytest test/python
+
+The name of the pytest binary depends on your installation.
+
 ## BDD Functional Tests (`test/bdd`)
 
 Functional tests are written as BDD instructions. For more information on
@@ -62,18 +78,19 @@ To run the functional tests, do
 
 The tests can be configured with a set of environment variables (`behave -D key=val`):
 
- * `BUILDDIR` - build directory of Nominatim installation to test
  * `TEMPLATE_DB` - name of template database used as a skeleton for
                    the test databases (db tests)
  * `TEST_DB` - name of test database (db tests)
  * `API_TEST_DB` - name of the database containing the API test data (api tests)
  * `API_TEST_FILE` - OSM file to be imported into the API test database (api tests)
+ * `API_ENGINE` - webframe to use for running search queries, same values as
+                  `nominatim serve --engine` parameter
  * `DB_HOST` - (optional) hostname of database host
  * `DB_PORT` - (optional) port of database on host
  * `DB_USER` - (optional) username of database login
  * `DB_PASS` - (optional) password for database login
  * `SERVER_MODULE_PATH` - (optional) path on the Postgres server to Nominatim
-                          module shared library file
+                          module shared library file (only needed for legacy tokenizer)
  * `REMOVE_TEMPLATE` - if true, the template and API database will not be reused
                        during the next run. Reusing the base templates speeds
                        up tests considerably but might lead to outdated errors
@@ -104,7 +121,7 @@ and compromises the following data:
 API tests should only be testing the functionality of the website PHP code.
 Most tests should be formulated as BDD DB creation tests (see below) instead.
 
-#### Code Coverage
+#### Code Coverage (PHP engine only)
 
 The API tests also support code coverage tests. You need to install
 [PHP_CodeCoverage](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/php-code-coverage).
@@ -137,7 +154,3 @@ needs superuser rights for postgres.
 
 These tests check that data is imported correctly into the place table. They
 use the same template database as the DB Creation tests, so the same remarks apply.
-
-Note that most testing of the gazetteer output of osm2pgsql is done in the tests
-of osm2pgsql itself. The BDD tests are just there to ensure compatibility of
-the osm2pgsql and Nominatim code.