Testing framework

aeon uses pytest for testing interface compliance of estimators, and correctness of code. This page gives an overview over the tests, and introductions on how to add tests, or how to extend the testing framework.

Test module architecture

aeon testing happens on three layers, roughly corresponding to the inheritance layers of estimators.

• package level: testing interface compliance with the BaseObject and BaseEstimator specifications, in tests/test_all_estimators.py

• module level: testing interface compliance of concrete estimators with their base class, for instance classification/tests/test_all_classifiers.py

• low level: testing individual functionality of estimators or other code, in individual files in tests folders.

The aeon testing framework is under redesign. For information on the current state of the testing framework, please refer to the dcostring documentation of the testing module.