The test suite is configured by environment variables that are defined in the file .env.

The test suite is invoked by...

pytest test -v

The contents of .env can be regarded as a base set, which can be overridden with values tailored for a specific test target system - via the additional file .env.<target>.

The target test system is then selected by invoking pytest with the variable target set.

For example, the test suite is invoked for the prod test target by...

target=prod pytest test -v

...which will take the test configuration from combination of the files .env and .env.prod.

The python library dependencies required to run the test suite are specified in the requirements.txt file - for installation via pip...

pip install -r requirements.txt

It is recommended to use a python virtual environment for the execution of the test suite...

python -m venv venv
. ./venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

An HTML test report can be obtained...

target=dev pytest test --html=report.html -v

# open report in browser
xdg-open report.html