Autopilot tests assume English locale

[Olivier Tilloy]

Some autopilot tests fail when run locally on a system with a locale setting that is not English.
On my laptop (where LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8), one of such failures is for calendar_app.tests.test_dayview.TestDayView.test_current_month_and_year_is_selected:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/osomon/dev/phablet/calendar-app/tests/autopilot/calendar_app/tests/test_dayview.py", line 44, in test_current_month_and_year_is_selected
    Equals(expected_month_name))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/testtools/testcase.py", line 412, in assertThat
    raise MismatchError(matchee, matcher, mismatch, verbose)
MismatchError: 'January' != u'janvier'

The tests should be fixed to not make implicit assumptions on the current locale.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

The quickest way to fix that (tested here locally) is probably to unset the locale before launching the application in the autopilot tests:

=== modified file 'tests/autopilot/calendar_app/tests/__init__.py'
--- tests/autopilot/calendar_app/tests/__init__.py 2014-01-18 23:29:11 +0000
+++ tests/autopilot/calendar_app/tests/__init__.py 2014-01-28 15:06:16 +0000
@@ -62,6 +62,11 @@
             #disabling for now
             #self.addCleanup(os.system("start maliit-server"))

+ # Unset the current locale to ensure locale-specific data
+ # (day and month names, first day of the week, …) doesn’t get
+ # in the way of test expectations.
+ self.patch_environment('LC_ALL', 'C')
+
         if os.path.exists(self.local_location):
             self.launch_test_local()
         elif os.path.exists(self.installed_location):

[Ubuntu Phone Apps Jenkins Bot (ubuntu-phone-apps-jenkins-bot)]

Fix committed into lp:ubuntu-calendar-app at revision 189, scheduled for release in ubuntu-calendar-app, milestone alpha-1