TST: add note about scope of base extension tests to all files (#39003)

Author: jorisvandenbossche

pandas/tests/extension/test_datetime.py

@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+"""
+This file contains a minimal set of tests for compliance with the extension
+array interface test suite, and should contain no other tests.
+The test suite for the full functionality of the array is located in
+`pandas/tests/arrays/`.
+
+The tests in this file are inherited from the BaseExtensionTests, and only
+minimal tweaks should be applied to get the tests passing (by overwriting a
+parent method).
+
+Additional tests should either be added to one of the BaseExtensionTests
+classes (if they are relevant for the extension interface for all dtypes), or
+be added to the array-specific tests in `pandas/tests/arrays/`.
+
+"""
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
 

pandas/tests/extension/test_numpy.py

@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+"""
+This file contains a minimal set of tests for compliance with the extension
+array interface test suite, and should contain no other tests.
+The test suite for the full functionality of the array is located in
+`pandas/tests/arrays/`.
+
+The tests in this file are inherited from the BaseExtensionTests, and only
+minimal tweaks should be applied to get the tests passing (by overwriting a
+parent method).
+
+Additional tests should either be added to one of the BaseExtensionTests
+classes (if they are relevant for the extension interface for all dtypes), or
+be added to the array-specific tests in `pandas/tests/arrays/`.
+
+"""
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
 

pandas/tests/extension/test_period.py

@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+"""
+This file contains a minimal set of tests for compliance with the extension
+array interface test suite, and should contain no other tests.
+The test suite for the full functionality of the array is located in
+`pandas/tests/arrays/`.
+
+The tests in this file are inherited from the BaseExtensionTests, and only
+minimal tweaks should be applied to get the tests passing (by overwriting a
+parent method).
+
+Additional tests should either be added to one of the BaseExtensionTests
+classes (if they are relevant for the extension interface for all dtypes), or
+be added to the array-specific tests in `pandas/tests/arrays/`.
+
+"""
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
 

pandas/tests/extension/test_sparse.py

@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+"""
+This file contains a minimal set of tests for compliance with the extension
+array interface test suite, and should contain no other tests.
+The test suite for the full functionality of the array is located in
+`pandas/tests/arrays/`.
+
+The tests in this file are inherited from the BaseExtensionTests, and only
+minimal tweaks should be applied to get the tests passing (by overwriting a
+parent method).
+
+Additional tests should either be added to one of the BaseExtensionTests
+classes (if they are relevant for the extension interface for all dtypes), or
+be added to the array-specific tests in `pandas/tests/arrays/`.
+
+"""
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
 

pandas/tests/extension/test_string.py

@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+"""
+This file contains a minimal set of tests for compliance with the extension
+array interface test suite, and should contain no other tests.
+The test suite for the full functionality of the array is located in
+`pandas/tests/arrays/`.
+
+The tests in this file are inherited from the BaseExtensionTests, and only
+minimal tweaks should be applied to get the tests passing (by overwriting a
+parent method).
+
+Additional tests should either be added to one of the BaseExtensionTests
+classes (if they are relevant for the extension interface for all dtypes), or
+be added to the array-specific tests in `pandas/tests/arrays/`.
+
+"""
 import string
 
 import numpy as np