UnitTesting

This is a unittest framework for Sublime Text. It runs unittest testcases on local machines and via Github Actions. It also supports testing syntax_test files for the new sublime-syntax format and sublime-color-scheme files.

Sublime Text 4

Sublime Text 4 is now supported and testing works for Python 3.8 packages.

Preparation

1. Install UnitTesting via Package Control.
2. Your package!
3. TestCases should be placed in test*.py under the directory tests (configurable, see below). The testcases are then loaded by TestLoader.discover.

Here are some small examples

Running Tests Locally

Command Palette

1. Open Command Palette using ctrl+shift+P or menu item Tools → Command Palette...
2. Choose a Unittesting: ... command to run and hit Enter

To test any package...

1. run UnitTesting: Test Package
2. enter the package name in the input panel and hit enter.

An output panel pops up displaying progress and results of running tests.

To run only tests in particular files, enter <Package name>:<filename>. <filename> should be a unix shell wildcard to match the file names. <Package name>:test*.py is used by default.

The command UnitTesting: Test Current Package runs all tests of the current package the active view's file is part of. The package is reloaded to pickup any code changes and then tests are executed.

The command UnitTesting: Test Current Package with Coverage runs tests for current package and generates a coverage report via coverage. The .coveragerc file is used to control coverage configurations. If it is missing, UnitTesting will ignore the tests directory.

Note

As of Unittesting 1.8.0 the following commands have been replaced to enable more flexible usage and integration in build systems.

unit_testing_current_package

{ "command": "unit_testing", "package": "$package_name" }

unit_testing_current_file

{ "command": "unit_testing", "package": "$package_name", "pattern": "$file_name" }

Build System

To run tests via build system specify unit_testing build system "target".

{
  "target": "unit_testing"
}

Project specific Test Current Package build command

It is recommended to add the following to .sublime-project file so that ctrl+b would invoke the testing action.

"build_systems":
[
  {
    "name": "Test Current Package",
    "target": "unit_testing",
    "package": "$package_name",
    "failfast": true
  }
]

Project specific Test Current File build command

It is recommended to add the following to .sublime-project file so that ctrl+b would invoke the testing action.

"build_systems":
[
  {
    "name": "Test Current File",
    "target": "unit_testing",
    "package": "$package_name",
    "pattern": "$file_name",
    "failfast": true
  }
]

GitHub Actions

Unittesting provides the following GitHub Actions, which can be combined in a workflow to design package tests.

1. SublimeText/UnitTesting/actions/setup

   Setup Sublime Text to run tests within.

   This must always be the first step after checking out the package to test.

2. SublimeText/UnitTesting/actions/run-color-scheme-tests

   Test color schemes using ColorSchemeUnit.

3. SublimeText/UnitTesting/actions/run-syntax-tests

   Test sublime-syntax definitions using built-in syntax test functions of already running Sublime Text environment.

   It is an alternative to SublimeText/syntax-test-action or sublimehq's online syntax_test_runner

4. SublimeText/UnitTesting/actions/run-tests

   Runs the unit_testing command to perform python unit tests.

Note

actions are released in the branch v1. Minor changes will be pushed to the same branch unless there are breaking changes.

Color Scheme Tests

To integrate color scheme tests via ColorSchemeUnit add the following snippet to a workflow file (e.g. .github/workflows/color-scheme-tests.yml).

name: ci-color-scheme-tests

on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:
  run-syntax-tests:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: SublimeText/UnitTesting/actions/setup@v1
      - uses: SublimeText/UnitTesting/actions/run-color-scheme-tests@v1

Syntax Tests

To run only syntax tests add the following snippet to a workflow file (e.g. .github/workflows/syntax-tests.yml).

name: ci-syntax-tests

on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:
  run-syntax-tests:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: SublimeText/UnitTesting/actions/setup@v1
      - uses: SublimeText/UnitTesting/actions/run-syntax-tests@v1

Note

If you are looking for syntax tests only, you may also checkout SublimeText/syntax-test-action. Using this test makes most sense to just re-use an already set-up ST test environment.

Unit Tests

To run only python unit tests on all platforms and versions of Sublime Text add the following snippet to a workflow file (e.g. .github/workflows/unit-tests.yml).

name: ci-unit-tests

on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:
  run-tests:
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        st-version: [3, 4]
        os: ["ubuntu-latest", "macOS-latest", "windows-latest"]
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: SublimeText/UnitTesting/actions/setup@v1
        with:
          package-name: Package Name   # if differs from repo name
          sublime-text-version: ${{ matrix.st-version }}
      - uses: SublimeText/UnitTesting/actions/run-tests@v1
        with:
          coverage: true
          package-name: Package Name   # if differs from repo name
      - uses: codecov/codecov-action@v4

Run All Tests

name: ci-tests

on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:
  run-tests:
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        st-version: [3, 4]
        os: ["ubuntu-latest", "macOS-latest", "windows-latest"]
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    steps:
      # checkout package to test
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      # setup test environment
      - uses: SublimeText/UnitTesting/actions/setup@v1
        with:
          sublime-text-version: ${{ matrix.st-version }}

      # run color scheme tests (only on Linux)
      - if: ${{ matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest' }}
        uses: SublimeText/UnitTesting/actions/run-color-scheme-tests@v1
      
      # run syntax tests and check compatibility with new syntax engine (only on Linux)
      - if: ${{ matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest' }}
        uses: SublimeText/UnitTesting/actions/run-syntax-tests@v1
        with:
          compatibility: true
      
      # run unit tests with coverage upload
      - uses: SublimeText/UnitTesting/actions/run-tests@v1
        with:
          coverage: true
          extra-packages: |
            A File Icon:SublimeText/AFileIcon
      - uses: codecov/codecov-action@v4

Check this for further examples.

Options

Package Configuration

UnitTesting is primarily configured by unittesting.json file in package root directory.

{
  "verbosity": 1,
  "coverage": true
}

Build System Configuration

Options provided via build system configuration override unittesting.json.

{
  "target": "unit_testing",
  "package": "$package_name",
  "verbosity": 2,
  "coverage": true
}

Command Arguments

Options passed as arguments to unit_testing command override unittesting.json.

window.run_command("unit_testing", {"package": "$package_name", "coverage": False})

Available Options

name	description	default value
tests_dir	the name of the directory containing the tests	"tests"
pattern	the pattern to discover tests	"test*.py"
deferred	whether to use deferred test runner	true
condition_timeout	default timeout in ms for callables invoked via yield	4000
failfast	stop early if a test fails	false
output	name of the test output instead of showing in the panel	null
verbosity	verbosity level	2
warnings	The warnings filter controls python warnings treatment.	"default"
capture_console	capture stdout and stderr in the test output	false
reload_package_on_testing	reloading package will increase coverage rate	true
coverage	track test case coverage	false
coverage_on_worker_thread	(experimental)	false
generate_html_report	generate HTML report for coverage	false
generate_xml_report	generate XML report for coverage	false

Valid warnings values are:

Value	Disposition
"default"	print the first occurrence of matching warnings for each location (module + line number) where the warning is issued
"error"	turn matching warnings into exceptions
"ignore"	never print matching warnings
"always"	always print matching warnings
"module"	print the first occurrence of matching warnings for each module where the warning is issued (regardless of line number)
"once"	print only the first occurrence of matching warnings, regardless of location

see also: https://docs.python.org/3/library/warnings.html#warning-filter

Writing Unittests

UnitTesting is based on python's unittest library. Any valid unittest test case is allowed.

Example:

tests/test_myunit.py

from unittest import TestCase

class MyTestCase(TestCase):

  def test_something(self):
    self.assertTrue(True)

Deferred testing

Tests can be written using deferrable test cases to test results of asynchronous or long lasting sublime commands, which require yielding control to sublime text runtime and resume test execution at a later point.

It is a kind of cooperative multithreading such as provided by asyncio, but with a home grown DeferringTextTestRunner acting as event loop.

The idea was inspired by Plugin UnitTest Harness.

DeferrableTestCase is used to write the test cases. They are executed by the DeferringTextTestRunner and the runner expects not only regular test functions, but also generators. If the test function is a generator, it does the following

• if the yielded object is a callable, the runner will evaluate the callable and check its returned value. If the result is not None, the runner continues the generator, if not, the runner will wait until the condition is met with the default timeout of 4s. The result of the callable can be also retrieved from the yield statement. The yielded object could also be a dictionary of the form

  {
    # required condition callable
    "condition": callable,
    # system timestamp when to start condition checks (default: `time.time()`)
    "start_time": timestamp,
    # optional the interval to invoke `condition()` (default: 17)
    "period": milliseconds,
    # optional timeout to wait for condition to be met (default: value from unittesting.json or 4000)
    "timeout": milliseconds,
    # optional message to print, if condition is not met within timeout
    "timeout_message": "Condition not fulfilled"
  }

  to specify various overrides such as poll interval or timeout in ms.

• if the yielded object is an integer, say x, then it will continue the generator after x ms.

• yield AWAIT_WORKER would yield to a task in the worker thread.

• otherwise, a single yield would yield to a task in the main thread.

Example:

import sublime
from unittesting import DeferrableTestCase


class TestCondition(DeferrableTestCase):

    def test_condition1(self):
        x = []

        def append():
            x.append(1)

        def condition():
            return len(x) == 1

        sublime.set_timeout(append, 100)

        # wait until `condition()` is true
        yield condition

        self.assertEqual(x[0], 1)

    def test_condition2(self):
        x = []

        def append():
            x.append(1)

        def condition():
            return len(x) == 1

        sublime.set_timeout(append, 100)

        # wait until `condition()` is true
        yield {
          "condition": condition,
          "period": 200,
          "timeout": 5000,
          "timeout_message": "Not enough items added to x"
        }

        self.assertEqual(x[0], 1)

see also tests/test_defer.py.

Helper TestCases

UnitTesting provides some helper test case classes, which perform common tasks such as overriding preferences, setting up views, etc.

• DeferrableViewTestCase
• OverridePreferencesTestCase
• TempDirectoryTestCase
• ViewTestCase

Usage and some examples are available via docstrings, which are displayed as hover popup by LSP and e.g. LSP-pyright.

Credits

Thanks guillermooo and philippotto for their early efforts in AppVeyor and Travis CI macOS support (though these services are not supported now).