Overview

Teaching: 5 min
Exercises: 25 min

Questions

• I’m out of questions.

• I’ve been here too long. Mr. Stark, I don’t feel too good.

Objectives

• Actually add a test on the output of running physics

So at this point, I’m going to be very hands-off, and just explain what you will be doing.

Adding a regression test

1. Add a test stage after the run stage.
2. Add a test_exotics job that is part of the test stage, and depends on run_exotics.
   • this job does not need to clone the repository (change GIT_STRATEGY)
3. Create a python file named test_regression.py that uses PyROOT and pytest
   • you might find the following lines (below) helpful to get pytest in the analysisbase image
   • you might find the following lines (below) helpful to set up test_regression.py
4. Write a few different tests of your choosing that tests (and asserts) something about myOuputFile.root. Some ideas are:
   • check the structure (does h_njets_raw exist?)
   • check that the integral of a histogram matches a value you expect
   • check that the bins of a histogram matches the values you expect
5. Update your test_exotics job to execute pytest test_regression.py
6. Try causing your CI/CD to fail on the test_exotics job

Done?

Once you’re happy with setting up the regression test, mark your merge request as ready by clicking the Resolve WIP Status button, and then merge it in to master.

PyTest in AB Image

pip install --user pytest
export PATH=/home/atlas/.local/bin:$PATH

Template for test_regression.py

import pytest
import ROOT

@pytest.fixture(scope='module')
def root_file():
  """ A module fixture is used to open the ROOT file once for this entire
  module and then close it when we're done.
  """
  f = ROOT.TFile.Open('run/myOutputFile.root')
  yield f
  f.Close()

def test_file_structure(root_file):
  pass

def test_histogram_integral(root_file):
  pass

def test_histogram_bins(root_file):
  pass

Key Points

• This kind of test is a regression test, as we’re testing assuming the code up to this point was correct.

• This is not a unit test. Unit tests would be testing individual pieces of the atlas/athena code-base, or specific functionality you wrote into your algorithms.