Merge pull request #1606 from willingc/test-readme

Add CHP to dev install and move to CONTRIBUTING

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -1,3 +1,78 @@
 # Contributing
 
 Welcome! As a [Jupyter](https://jupyter.org) project, we follow the [Jupyter contributor guide](https://jupyter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributor/content-contributor.html).
+
+## Set up your development system
+
+For a development install, clone the [repository](https://github.com/jupyterhub/jupyterhub)
+and then install from source:
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/jupyterhub/jupyterhub
+cd jupyterhub
+npm install -g configurable-http-proxy
+pip3 install -r dev-requirements.txt -e .
+```
+
+### Troubleshooting a development install
+
+If the `pip3 install` command fails and complains about `lessc` being
+unavailable, you may need to explicitly install some additional JavaScript
+dependencies:
+
+    npm install
+
+This will fetch client-side JavaScript dependencies necessary to compile CSS.
+
+You may also need to manually update JavaScript and CSS after some development
+updates, with:
+
+```bash
+python3 setup.py js    # fetch updated client-side js
+python3 setup.py css   # recompile CSS from LESS sources
+```
+
+## Running the test suite
+
+We use [pytest](http://doc.pytest.org/en/latest/) for running tests. Set up a
+development install as described above. To run all the tests:
+
+```bash
+pytest jupyterhub/tests
+```
+
+To run an individual test file (i.e. `test_api.py`):
+
+```bash
+pytest jupyterhub/tests/test_api.py
+```
+
+### Troubleshooting tests
+
+If you see test failures because of timeouts, you may wish to increase the
+`ASYNC_TEST_TIMEOUT` used by the
+[pytest-tornado-plugin](https://github.com/eugeniy/pytest-tornado/blob/c79f68de2222eb7cf84edcfe28650ebf309a4d0c/README.rst#markers)
+from the default of 5 seconds:
+
+```bash
+export ASYNC_TEST_TIMEOUT=15
+```
+
+If you see many test errors and failures, double check that you have installed
+`configurable-http-proxy`.
+
+## Building the Docs locally
+
+Install the dependencies:
+
+```bash
+python3 -m pip install -r docs/requirements.txt
+```
+
+Build the docs:
+
+```bash
+cd docs
+make clean
+make html
+```

README.md

@@ -175,63 +175,9 @@ These accounts will be used for authentication in JupyterHub's default configura
 
 If you would like to contribute to the project, please read our
 [contributor documentation](http://jupyter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributor/content-contributor.html)
-and the [`CONTRIBUTING.md`](CONTRIBUTING.md).
-
-For a **development install**, clone the [repository](https://github.com/jupyterhub/jupyterhub)
-and then install from source:
-
-```bash
-git clone https://github.com/jupyterhub/jupyterhub
-cd jupyterhub
-pip3 install -r dev-requirements.txt -e .
-```
-
-If the `pip3 install` command fails and complains about `lessc` being
-unavailable, you may need to explicitly install some additional JavaScript
-dependencies:
-
-    npm install
-
-This will fetch client-side JavaScript dependencies necessary to compile CSS.
-
-You may also need to manually update JavaScript and CSS after some development
-updates, with:
-
-```bash
-python3 setup.py js    # fetch updated client-side js
-python3 setup.py css   # recompile CSS from LESS sources
-```
-
-We use [pytest](http://doc.pytest.org/en/latest/) for **running tests**:
-
-```bash
-pytest jupyterhub/tests
-```
-
-If you see test failures because of timeouts, you may wish to increase the
-`ASYNC_TEST_TIMEOUT` used by the
-[pytest-tornado-plugin](https://github.com/eugeniy/pytest-tornado/blob/c79f68de2222eb7cf84edcfe28650ebf309a4d0c/README.rst#markers)
-from the default of 5 seconds:
-
-```bash
-export ASYNC_TEST_TIMEOUT=15
-```
-
-### Building the Docs locally
-
-Install the dependencies:
-
-```bash
-python3 -m pip install -r docs/requirements.txt
-```
-
-Build the docs:
-
-```bash
-cd docs
-make clean
-make html
-```
+and the [`CONTRIBUTING.md`](CONTRIBUTING.md). The `CONTRIBUTING.md` file
+explains how to set up a development installation, how to run the test suite,
+and how to contribute to documentation.
 
 ### A note about platform support