Trac Functional Tests

Automated functional tests are integrated in the test suite (see TracDev/UnitTests). They are formed by executing a series of unit tests. For detailed informations about functional tests, see:

• source:trunk/doc/dev/testing.rst​
• source:branches/0.12-stable/TESTING-README​ (old)

These functional tests do not replace manual testing.

Extra dependencies

• ​twill — simple scripting language for Web browsing
• ​lxml — used for XHTML validation

Those packages can be installed with easy_install:

easy_install twill
easy_install lxml

Note that one test requires that the svn program can be executed.

Windows specific dependencies

For lxml, the latest version is not always easy-installable for Windows, so you will have to download a somewhat older version from PyPI:

​http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml/2.3

There's also an additional dependency on Windows:

​fcrypt

The usual install method will work:

easy_install fcrypt

If fcrypt is not installed, you will get the following error when running the tests with Trac 0.11:

"Exception: Unable to setup admin password"

or this warning starting with Trac 0.12:

Warning: cannot parse password for user "crypt" without the "crypt" module

Running the tests

To run the functional tests, execute:

PYTHONPATH=. python ./trac/tests/functional/__init__.py

or:

make functional-test

This is starting from Trac 0.12, as Trac 0.11 has no Makefile.

Discussion / Feedback

Something to consider here: using twill's wsgi_intercept capability, and making these part of the unit tests.