File naming conventions for unittesting files

Question

For python unit tests, is the following a common naming convention?

MyProject/
    run_ingest.py
    tests/
        run_ingest.py

Or is this too redundant? If so, what would be a better naming convention or directory structure to put testing code?

Answer 1

Having a directory called tests is correct but, as per my experience, the test scripts themselves are usually prefixed with test_ so in your case test_run_ingest.py . Make sure to use underscore rather than - as a separator in the names to avoid import problems. As for the structure, you'd also probably want to include __init__.py files both to the top level and /tests folder to simplify imports.

If you are new to unittest this blog might be of interest.

Answer 2

Add a little bit to Alexander's answer. In test_run_ingest.py , write from run_ingest import * , and when testing, cd to MyProject and type python3 -m unittest tests.test_run_ingest