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x01dcandClaude Sonnet 5 eef1c7eb46
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fix(omny): reuse camera docks on parking/samplestage switch, GUI-confirm mount step, speed up otransx/oshield sim
- gui_tools.py: _omnycam_parking()/_omnycam_samplestage() now share one
  _omnygui_show_omnycam_pair() helper that creates the two camera Image
  docks + console once and re-points them via Image.image(device=...)
  on later switches instead of tearing down and rebuilding the whole
  GUI every time (bec_widgets' Image.image() already supports being
  called again to swap the monitored device). Also stops live mode on
  the outgoing camera pair on a switch, and drops the dead
  _omnycam_check_device_exists no-op guard in favor of the `in dev`
  idiom already used for cam_xeye in this file.
- omny_sample_transfer_mixin.py: the two remaining blocking
  input("Ready. Press Enter...") prompts in otransfer_put_sample/
  otransfer_get_sample now go through otransfer_confirm_dialog() like
  every other transfer confirmation, so they show up in the GUI console
  instead of blocking on a terminal keypress; fixed the get_sample
  prompt's copy-pasted "mount" wording to "unmount".
- simulated_omny.yaml: otransx sim_velocity 10->100 mm/s; oshield
  gained sim_velocity: 10.0 (previously unset, defaulting to the
  Smaract sim's 1 mm/s) -- both x10 per request.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018Mupip8x7Hean6E3FFvpbj
2026-09-04 16:36:14 +02:00
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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.