Contributing

Running VCR’s test suite

The tests are all run automatically on Travis CI, but you can also run them yourself using py.test and Tox. Tox will automatically run them in all environments VCR.py supports. The test suite is pretty big and slow, but you can tell tox to only run specific tests like this:

tox -e py27requests -- -v -k "'test_status_code or test_gzip'"

This will run only tests that look like test_status_code or test_gzip in the test suite, and only in the python 2.7 environment that has requests installed.

Also, in order for the boto tests to run, you will need an AWS key. Refer to the boto documentation for how to set this up. I have marked the boto tests as optional in Travis so you don’t have to worry about them failing if you submit a pull request.