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drmaa
drmaa

Reputation: 3684

how to test if __name__=="__main__" to increase coverage

I am new to pytest and testing. I have a simple program like below say hi.py

def foo():
   print('hello world')

def bar():
   print('hello python')

if __name__ == "__main__":
   foo()
   bar()

I can run the above program like

python3 hi.py

I have a couple of test cases in test_hi.py like below

import pytest

def test_foo()
   pass

def test_bar()
   pass

To increase code coverage, I also want to test it as python3 hi.py i.e. if __name__==__main__: way. I dont know how will I do it using a test case from test_hi.py. Please help. Thanks.

I am testing the module using pytest

python -m pytest --cov=hi.py

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4204

Answers (2)

drmaa
drmaa

Reputation: 3684

Okay so one solution I found for my problem is to exempt that if statement and achieve 100% coverage. To do that I have to add # pragma: no cover after if statement like below.

if __name__ == "__main__":      # pragma: no cover
   foo()
   bar()

The comment will tell pytest to skip the if statement and when you running the following command I can get 100% coverage

python -m pytest --cov=project

However, it is skipping the statements and I would like to cover it instead of skipping it.

Upvotes: 3

quamrana
quamrana

Reputation: 39404

My theory for code coverage is that you must have 100% coverage. Except where you can't, and then you must have 0% coverage.

You should split your source files into two different folders. One folder is covered by tests and achieves 100%, the files in the other folder are never tested and has 0% coverage.

An example of a zero coverage file is:

from hi import foo, bar

if __name__ == "__main__":
   foo()
   bar()

Upvotes: 0

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