#22: Added comment on using fixtures from pytest-plugin pytest-exasol-saas (#24)

Author: ckunki

README.md

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 # Exasol Python Extension Common
 
-A package with common functionality, shared by Exasol Python Extensions.
+A package with common functionality, shared by Exasol Python Extensions, e.g.
+* [transformers-extension](https://github.com/exasol/transformers-extension)
+* [sagemaker-extension](https://github.com/exasol/sagemaker-extension)
 
-See
-* [User Guide](doc/user_guide/user-guide.md)
+## Features
+
+A deployer for script language containers (SLC) to be used by UDF-based extensions of Exasol database requiring a special SLC.
+
+## More documentation
+
+* User Guide
+* [Developer Guide](doc/developer-guide.md)
+* [User Defined Functions (UDF)](https://docs.exasol.com/db/latest/database_concepts/udf_scripts.htm)
+* [Script Language Containers (SLC)](https://github.com/exasol/script-languages-release/)

doc/changes/unreleased.md

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 ## Refactorings
 
 * #15: Used plugin pytest-saas
+
+
+## Documentation
+
+* #22: Added comment on using fixtures from pytest-plugin `pytest-exasol-saas`

doc/developer-guide.md

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+# Python Extension Common (PEC) Developer Guide
+
+## Pytest Plugins
+
+PEC declares a dependency to pytest plugin `pytest-exasol-saas` which are maintained in GitHub repository [pytest-plugins/pytest_saas](https://github.com/exasol/pytest-plugins/tree/main/pytest-saas/).
+
+This plugin makes additional fixtures available that are used in the integration tests of PEC.
+See files in folder [test/integration](../tree/main/test/integration):
+
+* `conftest.py`
+* `test_language_container_deployer_saas.py`
+* `test_language_container_deployer_saas_cli.py`
+
+## Running Tests in CI Builds
+
+The test cases in PEC are separated in two groups.
+
+| Group                       | Execution                               | Name of gating GitHub workflow |
+|-----------------------------|-----------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
+| G1) Fast and cheap tests    | On each push to your development branch | Gate 1 - Regular CI            |
+| G2) Slow or expensive tests | Only on manual approval, see below      | Gate 2 - Allow Merge           |
+
+This enables fast development cycles while still protecting the main branch against build failures.
+
+For PEC group G2 particularly contains the tests involving Exasol SaaS infrastructure which are creating costs for the database instances temporarily created during test execution.
+
+Group G2 is guarded by a dedicated [GitHub Enviroment](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/deployment/targeting-different-environments/using-environments-for-deployment#required-reviewers) requiring **manual approval** before these tests are executed.
+
+Each of the groups results in a final gating GitHub workflow job that is added to the branch protection of branch `main`.
+
+So in order to merge a branch to `main` branch, the tests of both groups need to be executed and to have terminated succesfully.
+
+### Approving Slow Tests
+
+To approve executing the tests in group G2
+* Open your pull request in GitHub
+* Scroll to section "Checks"
+* Locate pending tasks, e.g. "Ask if Slow or Expensive Tests (e.g. SaaS) Should be Run"
+* Click the link "Details" on the right-hand side
+* Click "Review pending Deplopyments"
+* Select the checkbox "slow-tests"
+* Click the green button "Approve and deploy"

error_code_config.yml

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+error-tags:
+  PEC:
+    highest-index: 0