Unit and system testing

The installation can be tested comprehensively using pytest from the top-level directory. The developers also provide some convenience scripts for testing new installations; from the Ard folder run unit and regression tests:

source test/run_local_test_unit.sh
source test/run_local_test_system.sh

These enable the generation of HTML-based coverage reports by default and can be used to track "coverage", or the percentage of software lines of code that are run by the testing systems. Ard's git repository includes requirements for both the main and develop branches to have 80% coverage on unit testing and 50% testing in system testing, which are, respectively, tests of individual parts of Ard and "systems" composed of multiple parts. Failures are not tolerated in code that is merged onto these branches and code found therein should never cause a testing failure if it has been found there. If the process of installation and testing fails, please open a new issue here. If the process of installation and testing fails, please open a new issue here.