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demo data and tests
by "Raphaël Valyi" <rvalyi@akretion.com> - 12/12/2024 16:47:30Hello Odoo community,
More and more the OCA contributors avoid writing tests which depend on demo data and so does Odoo SA. This makes it easier to ensure tests are simple and will run no matter how demo data might be touched by other modules.
But eventually this could bring other benefits such as the ability to run these standard tests in the CI with production database dumps (that is where the demo data cannot be loaded in general).
In this case, I have a first question: probably some customization's might add required fields. What would be the best practice to be able to run these "native" or OCA tests that might fail to create records with such new constraints? We could imagine some monkey patches and standard hooks to help... We kind of face this already today by running tests with all repo modules installed, but with production dumps, much more modules would be installed together along with some non OCA customization which also need to be developed more cheaply...
But more important is my second question: if we set it as a good practice that OCA tests shouldn't depend on demo data, why are we still running the OCA CI with demo data enabled (still the case with Odoo 18 CI) ? Or is it planned we stop doing this in Odoo 19? I mean we could also save a good deal of server resources/time by not loading the gazillions of catchy Odoo CE demo data in each test run...
Thank you very much for your answers.
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Raphaël Valyi
Founder and consultant
