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Run and write LibreYOLO's unit tests and the PR gate: the fast, hermetic, CPU-only suite under tests/unit/ that gates every push and PR to dev. Use whenever someone wants to run unit tests, "run the tests before pushing", check whether a change breaks the PR gate, run one test file or one area (CLI, a model family, augmentations), or add a new unit test that must stay inside the PR-gate contract. Covers the marker taxonomy (unit / external_data / network), the hermeticity rules and the HTTP blocker, the Windows no-make fallback, golden fixtures, and how to keep a new test PR-gate-safe. For the heavy GPU suite use libreyolo-run-e2e-tests instead.

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Run LibreYOLO unit tests (the PR gate)

tests/unit/ is the merge-blocking suite: fast, CPU-only, no network, no real weights. It runs on every push and PR to dev on Linux, macOS, and Windows (.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml, Python 3.10). If this suite is green and install smoke is green, the PR gate is green; e2e never runs on PRs.

The canonical commands

make test_pr_gate          # exactly what CI runs

# Direct equivalent (what the cross-platform workflow executes):
LIBREYOLO_PR_GATE=1 uv run --no-sync pytest tests/unit -m "unit and not external_data and not network"

On this Windows box make and uv are not on the PowerShell PATH; use the Bash tool with the repo venv:

# from the repo root (worktrees reuse the main checkout's .venv)
LIBREYOLO_PR_GATE=1 PYTHONPATH=. .venv/Scripts/python.exe -m pytest tests/unit \
  -m "unit and not external_data and not network" -q

Scoped runs while iterating (drop LIBREYOLO_PR_GATE for speed if you are not checking hermeticity):

PYTHONPATH=. .venv/Scripts/python.exe -m pytest tests/unit/cli -q                 # one area
PYTHONPATH=. .venv/Scripts/python.exe -m pytest tests/unit/test_tasks.py -q      # one file
PYTHONPATH=. .venv/Scripts/python.exe -m pytest tests/unit -k "yolo9 and load" -q

Before pushing any change that touches libreyolo/, run at least the unit files for the touched area, then the full gate if the change is shared code (models/base, training/, validation/, cli/, data/).

How the markers work (the traps)

  • pyproject.toml sets addopts = "-m unit". Every pytest invocation defaults to unit-marked tests only. This is why running an e2e file "does nothing" without -m, and why a unit test missing its marker silently never runs. The last -m on the command line wins.
  • Every unit file declares pytestmark = pytest.mark.unit at module top. A new test file without it is invisible to CI. Check this first when a new test "passes locally but CI never ran it".
  • external_data marks tests that need staged local weights or datasets (e.g. the *_parity.py tests that compare against real upstream checkpoints). They are excluded from the PR gate and run only where the files are staged. Marking is per-test or per-module; the test should also skip cleanly when its file is absent.
  • network marks tests that intentionally reach non-local hosts. Also excluded from the gate.

The hermeticity contract (PR Gate v1.0, docs/testing.md)

With LIBREYOLO_PR_GATE=1, an autouse fixture in tests/conftest.py patches HTTP entry points and fails any test that touches a non-localhost URL (localhost stays allowed so DDP-on-localhost unit tests work). The contract:

  • No downloads: no HF, no GitHub releases, no CDN, no datasets, no weights.
  • No GPU, no CUDA, no vendor export runtimes required.
  • Needs external bytes anyway? Use a local fixture or mock; if the real artifact is essential, mark external_data/network and accept it leaves the gate, or move the coverage to e2e/nightly.

New unit tests are in the PR gate by default. That is the point: prefer writing the test so it stays in.

Golden fixtures and parity tests

Two patterns to know before touching numeric code:

  • Golden fixtures pin exact numeric behavior without external data: tests/unit/fixtures/augment_golden/ (augmentation parity), tests/unit/data/ocsort_parity_golden.json (tracker parity). If a deliberate behavior change breaks a golden test, regenerate the fixture with the generator script referenced in the test file header and say so in the PR; never hand-edit golden values.
  • Parity-vs-upstream tests (test_*_parity.py) are external_data: they load a real converted checkpoint and assert exact or near-exact output agreement. They do not run in the gate; run them manually when touching a ported family whose weights are staged under weights/.

Reading failures

  • N deselected, 0 selected on a file you expected to run: marker problem (missing pytestmark or your -m excluded it), not a collection bug.
  • A gate failure that mentions "External HTTP is blocked in the LibreYOLO PR gate": the code under test tries to download; fix the test to use a fixture, do not mark it network just to make CI pass.
  • Windows-only failures are real: CI runs Windows, so path handling (Path vs string, case, separators) and spawn multiprocessing must work.
  • The suite must pass on Python 3.10 (CI's floor) even if the local venv is newer; avoid 3.11+ syntax in tests and library code.

Writing a new unit test: checklist

  1. pytestmark = pytest.mark.unit at module top.
  2. No network, no real weights: build tiny models from config, use tmp_path, synthesize images with numpy.
  3. If it genuinely needs a staged artifact: @pytest.mark.external_data plus a clean skip when the artifact is missing.
  4. Fast: the whole gate is thousands of tests; keep each under ~1s.
  5. Run it under LIBREYOLO_PR_GATE=1 once before pushing so the HTTP blocker vets it the way CI will.

Related

  • docs/testing.md: the full test-tier contract (unit / smoke / e2e / QA).
  • skills/libreyolo-run-e2e-tests/: the GPU suite this skill is not.
  • skills/merge-to-dev/: run the touched-area unit tests before pushing.