LimaTestsSuite package

Common framework for Lima detectors to create and execute test based on the unittest library.

Description

The LimaTestSuite is a framework with a common API to define generic and specific test for any Lima detector. It provides:

• A configuration helper class to provide detector and test parameters from a file.
• Generic acquisition and abort tests.
• API to define generic and specific tests.

Supported LimaCCD detectors

Until now, these are the supported detectors:

• Simulator
• Pilatus

Usage

After installing the package, an entry point limatest is generated. Run this application by passing the test file as argument.

limatest <test_file>

Each configuration file defines a single TestSuite for a single detector and each TestSuite can be composed by one or multiple TestCases.

Some examples of configuration files can be found in examples folder.

Extra usage information and option can be found by execution limatest --help.

Configuration file

The configuration file is based in the ConfigParser module. The file is structured in various sections. There are three mandatory section expected in any configuration file: Detector, AcqDefaults and SavingDefaults.

• In Detector section the type (and port and host if necessary) of the detector are specified.
• The default test values for the acquisition and saving parameters are specified in AcqDefaults and SavingDefaults, respectively.
• Any other section in the file will be interpreted as a test.
• A test section will contain a mandatory field named type which specifies the type of test o define.
• An optional field named repeat is used to indicate the number of times the test will be executed sequentially (the default value is 1).
• Other fields specified correspond to the acquisition and saving Lima parameters and will overwrite the default configuration.