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+# Backend Testing Guidelines
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+- All the tests should test Backend functionalities. Frontend functionalities and e2e tests are done in Frontend.
+- Make use of pytest fixtures whenever it is possible. With fixtures, objects with high initialize durations are reused within tests, ex. a client session.
+- All test_data resides within _gradio/test_data_ and all test_files resides within test/test_files.
+- When doing network operations do not forget to make use of async to make tests faster.
+- Have clear class and function naming within the tests.
+- Short descriptions within test functions are great.
+- Library function docstrings is expected to contain an example, please add missing docstrings to the library while you are writing tests the related function.
+- Library docstring examples and descriptions are expected to align with tests, please fix divergent tests and library docstrings.