Running server tests

Now that you know how to write tests, let's see how you can run them!

Getting ready

We will reuse the tests for the my_module module from one of the previous recipes. You will need an instance with the addon installed. In this recipe, we assume that the instance configuration file is in project.cfg.

How to do it...

To run the tests for my module addon, install the module with demo data:

$ ./odoo-bin -c project.cfg --without-demo=False --stop-after-init \ 
-i my_module

Then, run the following command:

$ ./odoo-bin -c project.cfg --test-enable --log-level=error \ 
--stop-after-init -u my_module

How it works...

The key part in this recipe is the --test-enable command-line flag that tells Odoo to run the tests. The --stop-after-init flag will stop the instance after the tests have run, and -u will update the specified module. When an update (or install) is performed with tests enabled, all the affected addon modules' tests are run (this includes dependencies automatically installed...