Testing Nicos

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In order to run the unit tests on Nicos, you first need to set up your Python packages. Install the packages listed in the README document in your nicos-core directory. At time of writing these are:

• nose
• mock
• coverage (optional)
• sphinx (for generating doc)

This can be done simply by running pip install [package-names] from your ...\Python\scripts directory.

Now you can go ahead and run the tests. Go to ...\nicos-core\test and run ...\Python\scripts\nosetests.exe. Nose will detect all the tests in the directory and run them. Note that it is important to run it from the test directory or some tests will fail to do some relative imports.

Alternatively, you can run the tests in PyCharm by right clicking on the test directory and clicking Run 'Nosetests in test' or Debug 'Nosetests in test'.