Testing Utilities

Summary

This page will provide developers with details of testing utilities, such as helper files, which are useful in creating unit tests.

Helper Functions

C++

The following helper files have been found in the Mantid/Framework/TestHelpers package:

Python

There are some testhelpers which are only available in Python, they can be found in the testhelpers-package.

  • make_decorator - A function that returns a decorator for an algorithm without executing it.

  • TemporaryFileHelper - A class that creates named temporary files and deletes them automatically when the object is deleted. Basically a thin wrapper around NamedTemporaryFile from the tempfile package.