Migrate to Running Tests with Pytest

.github/workflows/tethys.yml

@@ -92,13 +92,13 @@ jobs:
         conda activate tethys
         conda list
         tethys db start
-        pip install coveralls reactpy_django
+        pip install coveralls reactpy_django pytest pytest-django pytest-cov
     # Test Tethys
     - name: Test Tethys
       run: |
         . ~/miniconda/etc/profile.d/conda.sh
         conda activate tethys
-        tethys test -c -u -v 2
+        pytest
     # Generate Coverage Report
     - name: Generate Coverage Report
       if: ${{ matrix.platform == 'ubuntu-latest' && matrix.python-version == '3.10' && matrix.django-version == '4.2' }}

.gitignore

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ docs/_build
 tethys_gizmos/static/tethys_gizmos/less/bower_components/*
 node_modules
 .eggs/
-.coverage
+.coverage*
 tests/coverage_html_report
 .*.swp
 .DS_Store

docs/contribute/code/dev_environment.rst

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 Setting Up Development Environment
 **********************************
 
-**Last Updated:** January 2025
+**Last Updated:** November 2025
 
 The first step in contributing code to Tethys Platform is setting up a development environment. This guide will walk you through the process of setting up a development environment for Tethys Platform.
 
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ Other Common Development Setups
 Use PostGIS Running in Docker
 -----------------------------
 
-The most common use case for this setup is to run the test suite. Another common need for using a PostGIS database is to debug features related to Persistent Stores API.
+A common need for using a PostGIS database is to debug features related to Persistent Stores API or to better simulate a production environment. The following steps will guide you through setting up Tethys Platform to use a PostGIS database running in a Docker container.
 
 .. warning::
 

docs/tethys_sdk/extensions/models.rst

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Extensions are not able to be linked to databases, but they can be used to store
         id = Column(Integer, autoincrement=True, primary_key=True)
         name = Column(String)
         description = Column(String)
-        date_created = Column(DateTime, default=datetime.datetime.utcnow)
+        date_created = Column(DateTime, default=datetime.datetime.now(datetime.UTC))
 
 
 To initialize the tables using a model defined in an extension, import the declarative base from the extension in the initializer function for the persistent store database you'd like to initialize:

docs/tethys_sdk/tethys_services/spatial_dataset_service/thredds_reference.rst

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ This example is adapted from the `Siphon NCSS Time Series Example <https://unida
 
     # Construct a query at a location specified by the latitude and longitude and time range
     # and return it in the NetCDF4 format
-    now = datetime.utcnow()
+    now = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.UTC)
     query.lonlat_point(-105, 40).time_range(now, now + timedelta(days=7))
     query.variables('streamflow').accept('netcdf')
 

docs/tutorials/thredds/plot_at_location.rst

@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ In this step you will create a new controller that will query the dataset at the
             geometry(geojson): A geojson object representing the location.
             dataset(str): Name of the dataset to query.
             variable(str): Name of the variable to query.
-            start_time(datetime): Start of time range to query. Defaults to datetime.utcnow().
+            start_time(datetime): Start of time range to query. Defaults to datetime.datetime.now(datetime.UTC).
             end_time(datetime): End of time range to query. Defaults to 7 days after start_time.
             vertical_level(number): The vertical level to query. Defaults to 100000.
 
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ In this step you will create a new controller that will query the dataset at the
 
             # Filter by time
             if start_time is None:
-                start_time = datetime.utcnow()
+                start_time = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.UTC)
 
             if end_time is None:
                 end_time = start_time + timedelta(days=7)

pyproject.toml

@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ dependencies = [
     "django-guardian",
 ]
 
+[project.optional-dependencies]
+test = ["pytest", "pytest-django", "pytest-cov", "requests_mock"]
+lint = ["flake8", "black"]
+
 [project.urls]
 homepage = "http://tethysplatform.org/"
 documentation = "http://docs.tethysplatform.org/en/stable/"
@@ -60,4 +64,22 @@ local_scheme = "no-local-version"
 include = ["tethys_*"]
 
 [tool.setuptools]
-package-data = {"*" = ["*"]}
+package-data = {"*" = ["*"]}
+
+[tool.pytest.ini_options]
+DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE = "tethys_portal.settings"
+addopts = "-s --cov"
+testpaths = ["tests/unit_tests/"]
+
+[tool.coverage.run]
+omit = [
+    "docs/*",
+    "tests/*",
+    "tethys_portal/_version.py",
+    "tethys_portal/__init__.py",
+    "*/migrations/*",
+]
+
+[tool.coverage.report]
+show_missing = true
+skip_covered = true