As with turbo_seti, blimpy tests needs a README.md

[Raz]

Describe the bug
Either follow the README.md file for installing unit tests python3 -m pip install -e .[full], or running ./run_tests.sh results in various errors:

Installing collected packages: coverage, codecov
Successfully installed codecov-2.1.11 coverage-5.5
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?

No module named 'pytest'

No module named 'pySLALIB'

Errors also occur when running the run_tests.sh script directly, instead of from the repo's root directory - setup.py not found.

There are no checks to see if git is already installed, before needing sudo access.

The script does not check what the current Operating System is before attempting to apt-get.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. run python3 -m pip install -e .[full] or ./run_tests.sh

Expected behavior
The unit test script to run without error when executed directly or from the repo's root directory, not require the installation of system dependencies if they are already installed, automatically detect it's environment and execute accordingly.

Setup

• Python version: 3
• Blimpy version: master
• OS: Ubuntu 20.04 and Gentoo

[Richard Elkins]

test/run_tests.sh is obsolete and no longer in use as far as I know. There are a few files in this category such as .coveralls.yml at the highest level (left over from when we were Travis CI users). We just haven't cleaned up yet.

I created a README.md in the test directory of turbo_seti that covers regression test installation and operations. It is my intent to do the same for blimpy.

In a nutshell,

• Download from github.
• cd into the highest level directory.
• cd tests
• bash download_data.sh
• pip install pytest pyslalib
• cd ..
• pytest

See the github actions in .github/workflows.