Files
voicebox/backend/tests
3e240a9ef1 fix(backend): break the app<->routes import cycle that aborts the test suite
Collecting backend/tests/ fails outright on a clean checkout:

    backend/tests/test_profile_duplicate_names.py:19: in <module>
        from database import Base, VoiceProfile as DBVoiceProfile
    E   ImportError: attempted relative import beyond top-level package

pytest stops at the collection error, so the whole backend suite runs zero
tests rather than the ~142 it otherwise would.

There are two causes stacked on top of each other.

First, a real cycle in production code. routes/profiles.py, routes/history.py
and routes/stories.py each import safe_content_disposition from ..app, while
app.py builds the FastAPI instance at module scope (app = create_app() on
import), which registers those same routers. Importing any of those three
route modules first therefore re-enters a partially initialised app and dies
with "cannot import name 'router' from partially initialized module". It only
works today because app.py always happens to be imported first.

safe_content_disposition is a pure helper over urllib.parse.quote with no
application state, so it moves to backend/utils/http.py. app.py re-exports it
so any external caller importing it from the old location keeps working.

Second, the test reached for modules through a sys.path hack
(sys.path.insert(parent) + "from database import ...") rather than the
"from backend.X import ..." style the rest of the suite uses. That flat import
makes database/models.py's "from ..utils.capture_chords import ..." point
outside the package. It also aimed at the wrong module: it wants the service
layer, which raises ValueError, not the route handler, which converts that
into an HTTPException.

Result: the full suite goes from 0 collected to 148 passed. The one remaining
failure, test_progress.py::test_hf_progress_tracker, is pre-existing and
unrelated (tqdm patching) - it reproduces identically on an unpatched tree.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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Backend Tests

Manual test scripts for debugging and validating backend functionality.

Test Files

test_generation_progress.py

Tests TTS generation with SSE progress monitoring to identify UX issues where users see download progress even when the model is already cached.

Usage:

cd backend
python tests/test_generation_progress.py

Prerequisites:

  • Server must be running (python main.py)
  • At least one voice profile must exist

test_real_download.py

Tests real model download with SSE progress monitoring.

Usage:

cd backend
# Delete cache first to force fresh download
rm -rf ~/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--openai--whisper-base
python tests/test_real_download.py

Prerequisites:

  • Server must be running (python main.py)

test_progress.py

Unit tests for ProgressManager and HFProgressTracker functionality.

Usage:

cd backend
python tests/test_progress.py

test_check_progress_state.py

Debugging script to inspect the internal state of ProgressManager and TaskManager.

Usage:

cd backend
python tests/test_check_progress_state.py

Notes

These are manual test scripts, not automated unit tests. They're designed for:

  • Debugging progress tracking issues
  • Validating SSE event streams
  • Monitoring real-time download behavior
  • Inspecting internal state during development