Testing

Almost all methods and functions within MDMC should have a minimum a single unit test in order to validate the implementation. When contributing code, please ensure that you add suitable unit tests in the relevant module within the tests directory.

In general, MDMC uses pytest for unit testing, although occasionally unittest.mock is also used. Please use pytest unless your tests cannot be written using this framework.

All tests (including system tests) are run from the command line with:

python -m pytest tests/

Testing and LAMMPS/PyLammps

The LAMMPS Python interface (PyLammps) uses stdout to get output from the LAMMPS library. By default, pytest redirects stdout which causes the majority of tests which use LAMMPS to fail. To fix this, pytest must be forced to be silent using the -s flag:

python -m pytest -s tests/