Configuration files¶

For convenience, tests can be specified via configuration files rather than using the testcode API directly. These configuration files are required for work with the command-line interface.

The two configuration files are, by default, jobconfig and userconfig in the working directory. Different names and/or paths can be specified if required.

Both configuration files take options in the ini format (as understood by Python’s configparser module). For example:

[section_1]
a = 2
b = test_option

[section_2]
v = 4.5
hello = world

defines an ini file with two sections (named ‘section_1’ and ‘section_2’), each with two variables set.