Problems with example.py execution

[bharadwajkalahasti]

Hi,
I have implemented the Specter sample test example.py as a module. But, I am unable to see the test output with the specter shell command. I have Python2.7.3 version installed on my machine.

This is the output from the test execution:

Example.py:
from specter import Spec, expect

class SampleSpec(Spec):

"""Docstring describing the specification"""
def it_can_create_an_object(self):

    """ Test docstring"""
    expect('something').to.equal('something')

~

Log from console:
root@site-1-host-1-vm-1:/specter_tests#
root@site-1-host-1-vm-1:/specter_tests# pwd
/root/specter_tests
root@site-1-host-1-vm-1:/specter_tests#
root@site-1-host-1-vm-1:/specter_tests#
root@site-1-host-1-vm-1:/specter_tests# ls
spec
root@site-1-host-1-vm-1:/specter_tests#
root@site-1-host-1-vm-1:~/specter_tests# specter

      ___
    _/ @@\
~- ( \  O/__     Specter
~-  \    \__)   ~~~~~~~~~~
~-  /     \     Keeping the Bogeyman away from your code!
~- /      _\
   ~~~~~~~~~

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/specter", line 9, in
load_entry_point('Specter==0.2.1', 'console_scripts', 'specter')()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/specter/runner.py", line 188, in activate
runner.run(args)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/specter/runner.py", line 153, in run
module_name=self.arguments.select_module)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/specter/scanner.py", line 38, in scan
classes = rlist_classes(module, cls_filter=Describe.plugin_filter)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pynsive/reflection.py", line 237, in rlist_classes
mnames = rlist_modules(module)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pynsive/reflection.py", line 179, in rlist_modules
module = import_module(mname)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pynsive/common.py", line 16, in import_module
return importlib.import_module(module_name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/importlib/init.py", line 37, in import_module
import(name)
ImportError: No module named spec
root@site-1-host-1-vm-1:~/specter_tests#

Can you please let know the correct syntax for implementing a testcase in a Python module and executing it with Specter library? I am looking for something similar to Beaker Ruby test library where every test case is a .rb code block (an instance of a test case class).

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Mihir

[jmvrbanac]

First and foremost, welcome to Specter!

From what you mentioned, it sounds like you're coming from Ruby. With that in mind, does the spec folder containing your test files have a file called __init__.py in it? Specter searches for tests within a Python package structure (defaults to the spec package). A Python package is defined by having a __init__.py file within a folder. Interestingly enough, this seems to be a rather common mistake when people are getting use to working with Python. Anyhow, I hope that this solves the issue you're seeing. If not, let me know and we can dig a bit deeper.

[bharadwajkalahasti]

Thanks for the reply to my comment.

I can execute the tests now after defining all within init.py in the same spec dir.

:~/specter_tests# specter

      ___
    _/ @@\
~- ( \  O/__     Specter
~-  \    \__)   ~~~~~~~~~~
~-  /     \     Keeping the Bogeyman away from your code!
~- /      _\
   ~~~~~~~~~

Sample Spec
\u221f it can create an object

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------- Summary --------
Pass | 1
Skip | 0
Fail | 0
Error | 0
Incomplete | 0
Test Total | 1

• Expectations | 1

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:~/specter_tests#