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Testing Modules

Odoo provides support for testing modules using unittest.

To write tests, simply define a tests sub-package in your module, it will be automatically inspected for test modules. Test modules should have a name starting with test_ and should be imported from tests/__init__.py, e.g.

your_module
|-- ...
`-- tests
    |-- __init__.py
    |-- test_bar.py
    `-- test_foo.py

and __init__.py contains:

from . import test_foo, test_bar

Changed in version 8.0: previously, the test runner would only run modules added to two lists fast_suite and checks in tests/__init__.py. In 8.0 it will run all imported modules

The test runner will simply run any test case, as described in the official unittest documentation, but Odoo provides a number of utilities and helpers related to testing Odoo content (modules, mainly):

class odoo.tests.common.TransactionCase(methodName='runTest')[source]

TestCase in which each test method is run in its own transaction, and with its own cursor. The transaction is rolled back and the cursor is closed after each test.

browse_ref(xid)[source]

Returns a record object for the provided external identifier

Parameters
xid -- fully-qualified external identifier, in the form module.identifier
Raise
ValueError if not found
Returns
BaseModel
ref(xid)[source]

Returns database ID for the provided external identifier, shortcut for get_object_reference

Parameters
xid -- fully-qualified external identifier, in the form module.identifier
Raise
ValueError if not found
Returns
registered id
class odoo.tests.common.SingleTransactionCase(methodName='runTest')[source]

TestCase in which all test methods are run in the same transaction, the transaction is started with the first test method and rolled back at the end of the last.

browse_ref(xid)[source]

Returns a record object for the provided external identifier

Parameters
xid -- fully-qualified external identifier, in the form module.identifier
Raise
ValueError if not found
Returns
BaseModel
ref(xid)[source]

Returns database ID for the provided external identifier, shortcut for get_object_reference

Parameters
xid -- fully-qualified external identifier, in the form module.identifier
Raise
ValueError if not found
Returns
registered id

By default, tests are run once right after the corresponding module has been installed. Test cases can also be configured to run after all modules have been installed, and not run right after the module installation:

odoo.tests.common.at_install(flag)[source]

Sets the at-install state of a test, the flag is a boolean specifying whether the test should (True) or should not (False) run during module installation.

By default, tests are run right after installing the module, before starting the installation of the next module.

odoo.tests.common.post_install(flag)[source]

Sets the post-install state of a test. The flag is a boolean specifying whether the test should or should not run after a set of module installations.

By default, tests are not run after installation of all modules in the current installation set.

The most common situation is to use TransactionCase and test a property of a model in each method:

class TestModelA(common.TransactionCase):
    def test_some_action(self):
        record = self.env['model.a'].create({'field': 'value'})
        record.some_action()
        self.assertEqual(
            record.field,
            expected_field_value)

    # other tests...

Running tests

Tests are automatically run when installing or updating modules if --test-enable was enabled when starting the Odoo server.

As of Odoo 8, running tests outside of the install/update cycle is not supported.