Automate Odoo Testing with Python Unit and Integration Tests

This skill generates automated test code for Odoo custom modules, built on Odoo's unittest-based testing framework. Mention @odoo-automated-tests and describe the feature you want covered, and it produces a complete test class with setup, teardown, and assertions, plus the exact odoo CLI command needed to run it. It covers three test types: TransactionCase unit tests for business logic, HttpCase integration tests for controller endpoints, and JavaScript tour tests (at a high level only). Tests are tagged @tagged('post_install', '-at_install') so they run only after all modules are installed, and shared test data is set up once per class via setUpClass() rather than re-initialized per test method with setUp() - a significant performance difference on large suites.

Use it when writing unit tests for a custom Odoo model's business logic, creating an HTTP test to verify a controller endpoint responds and redirects correctly, debugging test failures inside a CI pipeline, or setting up automated test execution with --test-enable.

Do not rely on it for JavaScript tour tests in depth - those require a running browser (PhantomJS or headless Chrome) plus a live Odoo server, which this skill does not cover. HttpCase tests are significantly slower than TransactionCase tests, so reserve them for controller/route verification rather than general business-logic checks. It also does not cover mocking external services such as an SMTP server or payment gateway, and test isolation only happens at the transaction level - tests that explicitly commit data via cr.commit() can leak state between test runs.

Input: a natural-language description of the Odoo feature or endpoint to test. Output: complete Python test class code (TransactionCase or HttpCase) with setup/teardown/assertions, and the matching odoo-bin CLI invocation to execute it - either the whole module, a specific tag, or a single test class:

./odoo-bin --test-enable --stop-after-init -d my_database -u hospital_management
./odoo-bin --test-enable --stop-after-init -d my_database --test-tags hospital_management
./odoo-bin --test-enable --stop-after-init -d my_database --test-tags /hospital_management:TestHospitalPatient

Builds on Odoo's native testing framework (odoo.tests.common.TransactionCase, HttpCase, and the @tagged decorator), and generates commands for the standard odoo-bin CLI so tests can be wired into CI pipelines.

Odoo developers writing or maintaining custom modules who need reliable, isolated automated tests - especially teams enforcing test coverage in CI who want tests to follow the framework's own performance and isolation conventions (setUpClass over setUp, with_user() over sudo() for access-control checks, dedicated test databases only).