Open Ephys Test Suite

Open Ephys Test Suite is a Python library for running automated integration tests with the Open Ephys GUI v1.0+.

The tests directory contains examples of tests. Tests are organized into two categories:

• core: Tests that validate core functionality of the GUI
• plugins: Tests that validate functionality of plugins

Before running any test, first launch the GUI with an empty signal chain (Edit->Clear Signal Chain) and ensure the HTTPServer is enabled (File->Enable HTTP Server). You can also run the GUI in headless mode by setting the --headless flag.

Single test

To run a single test:

python tests/core/basic_record.py --fetch 1

The fetch param is used to determine if new data should be fetched from the GUI during the test:

• Set to 1 if you want to fetch new data from the GUI during the test
• Set to 0 to skip recording new data and use the most recent recorded dataset available in the --parent_directory parameter.

Additional parameters can be passed to each test, see individual test files for details.

Run all tests

To run all available tests:

python run_all.py