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<span id="id1"></span><h1>Testing ๐Ÿงช<a class="headerlink" href="#testing" title="Permalink to this heading">#</a></h1>
<p>In this section we outline steps needed for unit testing in Arrow.</p>
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PyArrow</label><div class="sd-tab-content docutils">
<p>We use <a class="reference external" href="https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/">pytest</a> for
unit tests in Python. For more info about the required
packages see
<a class="reference internal" href="../../python.html#python-unit-testing"><span class="std std-ref">Python unit testing section</span></a>.</p>
<p><strong>Structure</strong></p>
<p>Test layout in PyArrow follows <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pytest</span></code> structure for
<a class="reference external" href="https://docs.pytest.org/en/6.2.x/goodpractices.html#tests-as-part-of-application-code">Tests as part of application code</a>:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">pyarrow</span><span class="o">/</span>
<span class="fm">__init__</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">py</span>
<span class="n">csv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">py</span>
<span class="n">dataset</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">py</span>
<span class="o">...</span>
<span class="n">tests</span><span class="o">/</span>
<span class="fm">__init__</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">py</span>
<span class="n">test_csv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">py</span>
<span class="n">test_dataset</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">py</span>
<span class="o">...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Tests for Parquet are located in a separate folder <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pyarrow/tests/parquet/</span></code>.</p>
<p><strong>Running tests</strong></p>
<p>To run a specific unit test, use this command in
the terminal from the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">arrow/python</span></code> folder:</p>
<div class="highlight-console notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>pytest<span class="w"> </span>pyarrow/tests/test_file.py<span class="w"> </span>-k<span class="w"> </span>test_your_unit_test
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Run all the tests from one file:</p>
<div class="highlight-console notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>pytest<span class="w"> </span>pyarrow/tests/test_file.py
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Run all the tests:</p>
<div class="highlight-console notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>pytest<span class="w"> </span>pyarrow
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>You can also run the tests with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">python</span> <span class="pre">-m</span> <span class="pre">pytest</span> <span class="pre">[...]</span></code>
which is almost equivalent to using <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pytest</span> <span class="pre">[...]</span></code> directly,
except that calling via python will also add the current
directory to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sys.path</span></code> and can in some cases help if
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pytest</span> <span class="pre">[...]</span></code> results in an ImportError.</p>
<p><strong>Recompiling PyArrow or Arrow C++</strong></p>
<p>If the tests start failing, try to recompile PyArrow or
Arrow C++. See note in the <a class="reference internal" href="building.html#build-libraries-guide"><span class="std std-ref">Building other Arrow libraries</span></a>
section under the PyArrow tab.</p>
<p><strong>Fixtures</strong></p>
<p>Inside PyArrow test files there can be helper functions
and fixtures defined. Also other pytest decorators such as
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&#64;parametrize</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&#64;skipif</span></code> are used.</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">_alltypes_example</span></code> in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">test_pandas</span></code> supplies a
dataframe with 100 rows for all data types.</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">_check_pandas_roundtrip</span></code> in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">test_pandas</span></code> asserts if the
roundtrip from <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Pandas</span></code> through <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pa.Table</span></code> or
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pa.RecordBatch</span></code> back to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Pandas</span></code> yields the same result.</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">large_buffer</span></code> fixture supplying a PyArrow buffer of fixed
size to the function <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">test_primitive_serialization(large_buffer)</span></code>
in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">test_serialization.py</span></code>.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>For this reason it is good to look through the file you
are planning to add the tests to and see if any of
the defined functions or fixtures will be helpful.</p>
<p>For more information about <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pytest</span></code> in general visit
<a class="reference external" href="https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/contents.html">Full pytest documentation</a></p>
</div>
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<p>We use <a class="reference external" href="https://testthat.r-lib.org/index.html">testthat</a> for
unit testing in R. More specifically, we use the <a class="reference external" href="https://testthat.r-lib.org/articles/third-edition.html">3rd edition
of testthat</a>.
On rare occasions we might want the behaviour of the 2nd edition
of testthat, which is indicated by <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">testthat::local_edition(2)</span></code>.</p>
<p><strong>Structure</strong></p>
<p>Expect the usual testthat folder structure:</p>
<div class="highlight-R notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">tests</span>
<span class="w"> </span>โ”œโ”€โ”€<span class="w"> </span><span class="n">testthat</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># test files live here</span>
<span class="w"> </span>โ””โ”€โ”€<span class="w"> </span><span class="n">testthat.R</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># runs tests when R CMD check runs (e.g. with devtools::check())</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>This is the fundamental structure of testing in R with
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">testthat</span></code>. Files such as <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">testthat.R</span></code> are not
expected to change very often. For the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">arrow</span></code> R
package <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">testthat.R</span></code> also defines how the results of
the various tests are displayed / reported in the console.</p>
<p>Usually, most files in the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">R/</span></code> sub-folder have a
corresponding test file in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tests/testthat</span></code>.</p>
<p><strong>Running tests</strong></p>
<p>To run all tests in a package locally call</p>
<div class="highlight-R notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">devtools</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="nf">test</span><span class="p">()</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>in the R console. Alternatively, you can use</p>
<div class="highlight-console notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>make<span class="w"> </span><span class="nb">test</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>in the shell.</p>
<p>You can run the tests in a single test file you have open with</p>
<div class="highlight-R notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">devtools</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="nf">test_active_file</span><span class="p">()</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>All tests are also run as part of our continuous
integration (CI) pipelines.</p>
<p>The <a class="reference external" href="https://arrow.apache.org/docs/r/articles/developing.html#running-tests">Arrow R Developer guide also has a section</a>
on running tests.</p>
<p><strong>Good practice</strong></p>
<p>In general any change to source code needs to be
accompanied by unit tests. All tests are expected
to pass before a pull request is merged.</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>Add functionality -&gt; add unit tests</p></li>
<li><p>Modify functionality -&gt; update unit tests</p></li>
<li><p>Solve a bug -&gt; add unit test before solving it,
which helps prove the bug and its fix</p></li>
<li><p>Performance improvements should be reflected in
benchmarks (which are also tests)</p></li>
<li><p>An exception could be refactoring functionality that
is fully covered by unit tests</p></li>
</ul>
<p>A good rule of thumb is: If the new functionality is
a user-facing or API change, you will almost certainly
need to change tests โ€” if no tests need to be changed,
it might mean the tests arenโ€™t right! If the new
functionality is a refactor and no APIs are changing,
there might not need to be test changes.</p>
<p><strong>Testing helpers</strong></p>
<p>To complement the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">testthat</span></code> functionality, the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">arrow</span></code>
R package has defined a series of specific utility
functions (called helpers), such as:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>expectations - these start with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">expect_</span></code> and are used
to compare objects</p>
<ul>
<li><p>for example, the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">expect_โ€ฆ_roundtrip()</span></code> functions
take an input, convert it to some other format
(e.g. arrow, altrep) and then convert it back,
confirming that the values are the same.</p>
<div class="highlight-R notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">x</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">&lt;-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">c</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="m">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="m">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="m">3</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">NA_real_</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nf">expect_altrep_roundtrip</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">min</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">na.rm</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">TRUE</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">skip_</span></code> - skips a unit test - think of them as acceptable
fails. Situations in which we might want to skip unit tests:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">skip_if_r_version()</span></code> - this is a specific <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">arrow</span></code> skip.
For example, we use this to skip a unit test when the R
version is 3.5.0 and below (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">skip_if_r_version(โ€œ3.5.0โ€)</span></code>).
You will likely see it used when the functionality we are
testing depends on features introduced after version 3.5.0
of R (such as the alternative representation of vectors,
Altrep, introduced in R 3.5.0, but with significant additions
in subsequent releases). As part of our CI workflow we test
against different versions of R and this is where this
feature comes in.</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">skip_if_not_available()</span></code> - another specific {arrow} skip.
Arrow (libarrow) has a number of optional features that can be
switched on or off (which happens at build time). If a unit
test depends on such a feature and this feature is not
available (i.e. was not selected when libarrow was built)
the test is skipped, as opposed to having a failed test.</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">skip_if_offline()</span></code> - will not run tests that require an
internet connection</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">skip_on_os()</span></code> - for unit tests that are OS specific.</p></li>
</ul>
<p><em>Important</em>: Once the conditions for a <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">skip_()</span></code> statement is met,
no other line of code in the same <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">test_that()</span></code> test block will
get executed. If the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">skip</span></code> is outside of a <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">test_that()</span></code> code
block, it will skip the rest of the file.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>For more information about unit testing in R in general:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">testthat</span></code> <a class="reference external" href="https://testthat.r-lib.org/index.html">website</a></p></li>
<li><p>the <strong>R Packages</strong> <a class="reference external" href="https://r-pkgs.org">book</a> by Hadley Wickham and Jenny Bryan</p></li>
</ul>
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