Contributing to Splash

Splash is free & open source. Development happens at GitHub:

Testing Suite

The recommended way to execute Splash testing suite is to use a special testing Docker container.

  1. First, create a base Splash image named “splash”. If you’re not customizing Splash dependencies, and your changes are based on Splash master branch, you can use scrapinghub/splash:master image:

    docker pull scrapinghub/splash:master
    docker tag scrapinghub/splash:master splash

    If you’ve changed Splash dependencies (Python-level or system-level) then you have to build Splash image from scratch. Run the following command from the source checkout:

    docker build -t splash .

    It can take a while (maybe half an hour). Alternatively, you can temporarily change dockerfiles/tests/Dockerfile or to install new dependencies.

  2. Create a testing Docker image:

    docker build -t splash-tests -f dockerfiles/tests/Dockerfile .

    Testing Docker image is based on splash docker image, so you need to have an image called splash - we created such image at step (1).

  3. Run tests inside this testing image:

    docker run --rm -it splash-tests

    You can also pass pytest command-line arguments in the command above. For example, you can select only a subset of tests to execute (SandboxTest test case in this example):

    docker run --rm -it splash-tests -k SandboxTest

If you’ve changed Splash source code and want to re-run tests, repeat steps (2) and (3). Step (2) should take much less time now. Repeating step (1) is only necessary if you’re adding new dependencies to Splash (Python or system-level), or if you want to update the base Splash image (e.g. after a recent rebase on Splash master).

There is a script in the root of Splash repository ( which combines steps (2) and (3); you can use it during development to run tests: change Splash source code or testing source code, then run ./ from source checkout.