Backend Development#

Developer or User?

This section is part of the instrutions for programmers interested in REEV. If you want to use REEV, the best place is to start at Quickstart.

Types#

  • prefer to use semantic-carrying types, e.g., enum.Enum over bool or int

Test Structure#

  • use assemble, act, assert structure e.g., as described here

  • properly use fixtures, place them in conftest.py files

  • use pytest.mark.parameterize to condense multiple test cases into one tests but don’t overdo it

    • see test_clinvarsub.py for an example (e.g., test_create_submissionthreads) that is still good a trade-off but probably shows the highest degree of complexity (read: different test code paths)