Google Summer of Code: netengine

[Alessia Ventani]

Good afternoon, 

I'm writing the draft for the netengine project. What does it mean: "mock all external network calls during tests (SSH, HTTP, SNMP)"?

Will I report some examples of tests where it's useful use mock or simply the library that I will use? 

thank you,

Alessia Ventani

[Federico Capoano]

in 2014 we tried to run tests by connecting to real devices, that makes it impossible to run the test suite on travis-ci and also makes it very hard for new contributors to run the tests because they have to have all the hardware needed to run the tests, which is very unpractical.

For mocking, we mean this: https://realpython.com/blog/python/testing-third-party-apis-with-mocks/

It means using the standard mock library of python to temporarily replace methods that perform external calls with simulations that behave in the same way but are just simulated.

So if you perform an HTTP request and you expect a JSON response like {"detail": "success"}, you mock the method which performs the request so it returns that value without even performing the request.

Is it clear now?

Federico

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[Alessia Ventani]

Yes. I will search some tests that will be use mock! Thank you for the answer!

Alessia

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[Alessia Ventani]

Hi! I have published the draft for the netengine project! Can you review it and tell me if something miss?

thank you for the help! 

Alessia Ventani