From needles.anthony at gmail.com  Sun Jul 31 00:29:02 2022
From: needles.anthony at gmail.com (Anthony Needles)
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 15:29:02 -0700
Subject: Test Groups and Dependencies
Message-ID: <CAPSyTrfTUu1nrxRo4q9kaBVAoqGQ=FrAQqKnLD5W5q7du-03Ng@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

Hopefully this is the right place to ask this. I am currently using tbot at
my work and like it very much. However, we require two specific features
that I am manually implementing:

1. Test cases can be marked to be in a group (at the test case definition,
with a python decorator). This way groups of tests can be ran in a simpler,
unified method.

2. With the same decorator method as #1, define dependencies for tests. If
a certain test is invoked, and it is found to have another test case (or
group) as a dependency, those are automatically ran first.

For example:

@tbot.testcase(groups=[?networking?], depends=[?reach_login?],
group_depends=[?boot?])
def wifi_connectivity_test():
    ?.

While something like grouping can be done with the existing
tbot.tc.testsuite method, but it seems like better organization to define
all attributes of a testcase at the actual testcase definition.

I was wondering if these features are something that would be desirable to
have natively in tbot. Since I?m already writing the general logic, I could
possibly contribute to tbot to add these. I?m new to open source
contributions, but I think this would be pretty cool to do. Let me know if
these features are in-scope with the desired functionality of tbot, and I
can start contributions.

Thanks,
Anthony