pyats

pyATS - Cisco Python Automated Test System

pyATS is an end-to-end testing ecosystem, specializing in data-driven and reusable testing, and engineered to be suitable for Agile, rapid development iterations. Extensible by design, pyATS enables developers start with small, simple and linear test cases, and scale towards large, complex and asynchronous test suites.

pyATS is initially developed internally in Cisco, and is now available to the general public starting late 2017 through Cisco DevNet_. Visit the pyATS home page at

https://developer.cisco.com/site/pyats/

.. _Cisco DevNet: https://developer.cisco.com/

pyATS Package

This is the top-level package of pyATS. Installing it will automatically install all pyATS components and dependencies.

Requirements

pyATS currently supports Python >=3.8 on Linux & Mac systems.

Quick Start

.. code-block:: console

$ pip install pyats

# to install alpha/beta versions, add --pre
$ pip install --pre pyats

For more information on setting up your Python development environment, such as creating virtual environment and installing pip on your system, please refer to Virtual Environment and Packages_ in Python tutorials.

.. _Virtual Environment and Packages: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/venv.html

Example

As part of installation, examples showcasing various features & idioms of coding in pyATS will be copied to your virtual environment under examples/ folder.

In addition, you can also get a copy of these examples here: https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/pyats-sample-scripts

The examples are self-explanatory, and includes the necessary instructions on how to run them.