# Testing signals — ollama/ollama

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# Testing signals — ollama/ollama

Scanned commit 6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08 (2026-09-18). Generated by codevetter codevetter 1.12.0 on 2026-09-22.

Testing is Go-test-first with heavy coverage in server/, model/parsers, model/renderers, middleware, mlxrunner, create, envconfig; testify is the assertion library. integration/ holds end-to-end suites gated on a live server/registry; CI runs go test -count=1 ./... plus a -race job, golangci-lint, patch-apply checks, vitest for the React app, and a benchmark pass.
- CI test.yaml runs `go test -count=1 -bench=. -benchtime=1x ./...` on PRs and a separate `go test -race -count=1 ./...` race job — [.github/workflows/test.yaml#L451-L455](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/.github/workflows/test.yaml#L451-L455) [.github/workflows/test.yaml#L500-L501](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/.github/workflows/test.yaml#L500-L501)
- CI includes golangci-lint (golangci-lint-action@v9), go_mod_tidy and go_license checks, plus a patches job that verifies llama/server patches apply cleanly under CMake — [.github/workflows/test.yaml#L62-L80](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/.github/workflows/test.yaml#L62-L80) [.github/workflows/test.yaml#L370-L394](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/.github/workflows/test.yaml#L370-L394) [.github/workflows/test.yaml#L461](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/.github/workflows/test.yaml#L461)
- The desktop app is tested with `go test -tags updater_live ./app/...` and the React UI via `npm ci && npm test` (vitest) plus npm run build; Storybook config also present (build-storybook script) — [.github/workflows/test.yaml#L427-L434](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/.github/workflows/test.yaml#L427-L434) [.github/workflows/test.yaml#L457-L459](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/.github/workflows/test.yaml#L457-L459) [app/ui/app/package.json](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/app/ui/app/package.json)
- server/ has ~30 *_test.go files including routes_*_test.go per endpoint family, a fuzz test (create_fuzz_test.go), and sched_test.go for scheduler logic — [server/create_fuzz_test.go](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/server/create_fuzz_test.go) [server/routes_test.go](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/server/routes_test.go) [server/sched_test.go](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/server/sched_test.go)
- model/parsers and model/renderers have per-family test files plus reference-test files (nemotron*_reference_test.go) and shared testhelpers_test.go — [model/parsers/parsers_test.go](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/model/parsers/parsers_test.go) [model/parsers/testhelpers_test.go](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/model/parsers/testhelpers_test.go) [model/renderers/renderer_test.go](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/model/renderers/renderer_test.go)
- integration/ contains end-to-end tests (api_test, concurrency_test, max_queue_test, vision/audio tests, reg_* group files) that require a running server and real model pulls — documented in integration/README.md — [integration/README.md](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/integration/README.md) [integration/api_test.go](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/integration/api_test.go) [integration/max_queue_test.go](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/integration/max_queue_test.go)
- Test isolation uses OLLAMA_MODELS/home overrides: many packages ship test_home_test.go helpers to redirect model storage into temp dirs (inferred) — [envconfig/test_home_test.go](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/envconfig/test_home_test.go) [server/test_home_test.go](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/server/test_home_test.go) [middleware/test_home_test.go](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/middleware/test_home_test.go)
- template/ has a golden-file style test driven by embedded index.json + per-model .gotmpl/.json pairs (template_test.go) — [template/template_test.go](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/template/template_test.go) [template/template.go#L22-L40](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/template/template.go#L22-L40)
- api/ tests include types_typescript_test.go which cross-checks Go API types against generated TypeScript (typescriptify dep in go.mod) — [api/types_typescript_test.go](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/api/types_typescript_test.go) [go.mod#L29](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/go.mod#L29)
- Coverage gaps: Objective-C/macOS glue (app/cmd/app/*.m, discover/gpu_info_darwin.m) and the codex_desktop_autoreview/proxy hot paths have tests but the darwin app lifecycle is largely untestable in CI (build-tagged windows||darwin) (inferred) — [app/cmd/app/app.go#L1](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/app/cmd/app/app.go#L1) [app/cmd/app/codex_app_darwin.go](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/app/cmd/app/codex_app_darwin.go) [discover/gpu_info_darwin.m](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/6383a0fa9cbf97494b847226e189f6e36b401a08/discover/gpu_info_darwin.m)

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