With Filesystem task types, if you enable Automated Tests during the task creation, you can add unit tests that will be automatically run and scored by CodeSignal each time a candidate completes the task. The unit tests can be hidden from the candidate, or exposed to serve as guidelines.
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How scoring works
- Each unit test that is added with the correct configuration will be incorporated into the overall score. See more about configuring unit tests below.
- We recommend making your unit tests read-only and/or hidden from the candidate so that they cannot be modified.
- In custom Filesystem tasks that you create, each unit test counts equally towards the overall score by default. If you want to adjust the weights in the backend, our content team can help you with this. Please contact customer_success@codesignal.com.
Configuring unit tests in each environment
Java + JUnit (Maven or Gradle)
- Following convention, the path containing unit tests should be: src/test/java
- Unit tests must have the appropriate Annotations.
JavaScript or Typescript + Mocha
- The path containing unit tests must be: specs/
- Learn more about writing tests with Mocha here: https://mochajs.org
C# + NUnit
- All NUnit attributes are contained in the NUnit.Framework namespace. Each source file that contains tests must include a using statement for that namespace.
- See here for more documentation.
C# + .NET Core
- The tests must be part of a test project, and that project must be included in the solution file.
- For more information on writing tests in .NET Core, see the documentation here.
PHP + PHPUnit
- The path containing unit tests must be: tests/
- The file(s) being tested must be included, e.g.:
include(dirname(__FILE__)."/../sumNumbers.php");
- See information on writing tests in the documentation for PHPUnit here.
Python (2 or 3) + unittest
- The path containing unit tests must be: tests/
- The following code, which lets you import Python files from the root directory, must be included:
import os, sys, inspect
currentdir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(inspect.getfile(inspect.currentframe())))
parentdir = os.path.dirname(currentdir)
sys.path.insert(0, parentdir)
import unittest
- More information on the unittest module can be found in the documentation here.