New submission from R. David Murray <[email protected]>:
Suppose you have a test package:
test_pkg
__init__.py
test_mytest.py
If __init__.py is empty and you run
python -m unittest test_pk
no tests are found.
You can get this to work by adding the following boiler plate to __init__.py:
def load_tests(loader, standard_tests, pattern):
this_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
if pattern is None:
pattern = "test*"
package_tests = loader.discover(start_dir=this_dir,
pattern=pattern,
top_level_dir=this_dir)
standard_tests.addTests(package_tests)
return standard_tests
Note that top_level_dir is required to handle specifying more than one test
package at a time on the unittest command line. Otherwise the second package
gets a loader that already has _top_level_dir set, and so it fails to default
to start_dir. I suspect this is also a bug.
This works; it uses discovery to find the tests and returns them using the load
test protocol. Other methods could be used to construct the test to add as
well. But all have the serious disadvantage that the package name does not
appear in the output. Running the above test_pkg command line give results
like this with -v:
test_something (test_mytest.Test) ... ok
test_pkg is not mentioned. This is merely annoying when running a single test
package, but if you
do something like:
python -m unittest -v test_pkg test_pkg2
You can't tell in the verbose output or the test failure output which
test package the tests are from.
In summary, unittest needs better support for test packages.
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messages: 162374
nosy: michael.foord, r.david.murray
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Unittest CLI does not support test packages very well
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.3
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