Unit Tests
Component-level tests that do not launch a server or load model weights. Tests can use CPU or GPU — the key criterion is no server process.
Quick Start
- Find the source file under
python/sglang/srt/. - Create the corresponding test here, mirroring the source tree:
srt/mem_cache/radix_cache.py → unit/mem_cache/test_radix_cache.py srt/sampling/sampling_params.py → unit/sampling/test_sampling_params.py - Register for CI at the top of the file (after imports, before test classes):
CUDA suites whose names follow
from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_cpu_ci register_cpu_ci(est_time=5, suite="base-a-test-cpu") # or: register_cuda_ci(est_time=10, stage="base-b", runner_config="1-gpu-small"){stage}-test-{runner_config}use thestage=+runner_config=form. Legacysuite="..."is kept for nightly/stress/weekly + AMD/CPU/NPU suites that don't fit that shape. - Run locally:
pytest test/registered/unit/ -v # all unit tests pytest test/registered/unit/mem_cache/ -v # one module - Run with coverage:
# summary pytest test/registered/unit/ --cov --cov-config=.coveragerc -v # PR incremental check (require ≥60% on changed lines) pytest test/registered/unit/ --cov --cov-config=.coveragerc --cov-report=xml diff-cover coverage.xml --compare-branch=origin/main --fail-under=60
Examples
Basic unit test
"""Unit tests for <module> — no server, no model loading."""
from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_cpu_ci
register_cpu_ci(est_time=5, suite="base-a-test-cpu")
import unittest
from sglang.srt.<module> import TargetClass
from sglang.test.test_utils import CustomTestCase
class TestTargetClass(CustomTestCase):
def test_basic_behavior(self):
obj = TargetClass(...)
self.assertEqual(obj.method(), expected)
if __name__ == "__main__":
unittest.main()
Stubbing GPU-only imports for CPU tests
Some modules (e.g. scheduler.py, io_struct.py) transitively import packages like
sgl_kernel that require a GPU to initialize. To run pure-mock tests against these
modules on CPU-only CI, stub the problematic package before importing it.
maybe_stub_sgl_kernel() in test_utils.py does this for sgl_kernel: it's a no-op
on GPU machines, and on CPU it installs a sys.meta_path finder that auto-creates empty
stub modules for all sgl_kernel.* submodules.
from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_cpu_ci
from sglang.test.test_utils import maybe_stub_sgl_kernel
maybe_stub_sgl_kernel() # must precede any import that pulls in sgl_kernel
from sglang.srt.managers.io_struct import FlushCacheReqInput
from sglang.srt.managers.scheduler import Scheduler
register_cpu_ci(est_time=2, suite="base-a-test-cpu")
The same pattern (sys.meta_path finder) can be applied to other GPU-only packages.
See maybe_stub_sgl_kernel() in python/sglang/test/test_utils.py for the
implementation. Do not directly mutate sys.modules at module level — pytest
imports all test files before running any, so such mutations pollute the entire
process. If you must stub, use patch.dict("sys.modules", ...) with proper cleanup.
Rules
- No
popen_launch_server()orEngine(...). - No model weight loading.
- Use
CustomTestCase(fromsglang.test.test_utils, adds CI retry). - Use
unittest.mockfor dependencies that are expensive to construct.