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fix(omny): seed shuttle A at parking slot 6 by default; drop redundant y/n hint from GUI confirm
- sim_omny.py: SimOMNYSampleStorage now seeds shuttle A (which already
  holds the default sim_sample_1/2/3) as parked at slot 6 -- saves
  calling dev.omny_samples.set_shuttle_slot('A', 6) by hand at the
  start of every test session. (oshuttlealign already starts
  pre-referenced/down from the previous commit's sim_limit_high_active
  change -- confirmed still in place, no further change needed there.)
- omny_general_tools.py: gui_yesno() no longer appends a "[y]/n?"-style
  text hint to the message -- the ConsoleButtonsWidget already shows
  actual Yes/No buttons, so the text was redundant (only the
  terminal-only yesno() prompt still needs it).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018Mupip8x7Hean6E3FFvpbj
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Getting Started with Testing using pytest

BEC is using the pytest framework. It can be installed via

pip install pytest

in your python environment. We note that pytest is part of the optional-dependencies [dev] of the plugin package.

Introduction

Tests in this package should be stored in the tests directory. We suggest to sort tests of different submodules, i.e. scans or devices in the respective folder structure, and to folow a naming convention of <test_module_name.py>. It is mandatory for test files to begin with test_ for pytest to discover them.

To run all tests, navigate to the directory of the plugin from the command line, and run the command

pytest -v --random-order ./tests

Note, the python environment needs to be active. The additional arg -v allows pytest to run in verbose mode which provides more detailed information about the tests being run. The argument --random-order instructs pytest to run the tests in random order, which is the default in the CI pipelines.

Test examples

Writing tests can be quite specific for the given function. We recommend writing tests as isolated as possible, i.e. try to test single functions instead of full classes. A very useful class to enable isolated testing is MagicMock. In addition, we also recommend to take a look at the How-to guides from pytest.