Plugins

It is possible to create plugin for Task and Conditions. This section includes information about off-the-shelf plugins distributed with atheist.

Tasks

DebPkgBuild()
DebPkgInstall()
DocTest()
Wrapper to add standard doctest to atheist testcases.
TaskTerminator(task[, task, ...], key-vals)

It’s a special test to kill and ensure the termination of other tasks.

The next example runs a netcat server for 10 seconds and then kills it:

nc = Daemon("nc -l -p 2000")
TaskTerminator(nc, delay=10)
UnitTestCase()

Wrapper for standard unitest.TestCase. A sample:

class TestSample(unittest.TestCase):
        def test_trivial():
                self.assertEqual(1, 1)

UnitTestCase(TestSample)
WebTest()

It is a test to check webpages are correct and accessible.

Authentication with cookie:

If you want to get a page from a restricted site you may need a cookie file:

WebTest('example.org', cookie='cookie.txt')

To get the cookie you may use a curl command similar to this:

curl -c cookie.txt -d "name=John.Doe&pass=secret&form_id=user_login" http://example.orrg/login

Conditions

CompositeCondition(oper, condition[, condition, ...])

Apply an arbitrary operator to compose results for given condition. It is the same idea of `compositetask`_ but applied to conditions. Sample:

CompositeCondition(all, cond1, cond2)
DebPkgInstalled(package)
Checks that Debian package package is installed.
Or(condition[, condition, ...])
Checks that at least one of the given conditions is satisfied.
TaskFinished(task[, task, ...])
Checks that all the given tasks are finished. Usually used with a Poll decorator.
TaskRunning(task[, task, ...])
Check that all the given tasks are running.

Extending atheist

How to write a plugin... TODO

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