How to run specific test in Nose2
Question:
In previous version of Nose testing framework, there were several ways to specify only a subset of all tests:
nosetests test.module
nosetests another.test:TestCase.test_method
nosetests a.test:TestCase
nosetests /path/to/test/file.py:test_function
http://nose.readthedocs.org/en/latest/usage.html#selecting-tests
However, I can’t find any information about similar test selection in Nose2. There’s a mention in docs about different test discovery, but that doesn’t seem to be related.
Is there a way to select a specific test or test case in nose2 or (more generally) in unittest2?
Answers:
You’d have to use a config file:
nose2 -c nose2.cfg
nose2.cfg:
[unittest]
start-dir=test/module
You’d probably want to just run all tests if you’re considering writing a script that will modify that config file and re-run your nose tests. Unit tests should be pretty quick…but if you’re just focusing on a specific section of tests, it’s worth it to jump into this file and change that line during development.
I have some tests in dev/tests, for example:
dev/tests/test_file.py
I am able to run this with:
nose2 -s dev tests.test_file
Additionally, I’m able to run a specific test method in a test case as follows:
nose2 -s dev tests.test_file.TestCase.test_method
Does that accomplish what you want?
Works without -s, if you have your test in tests/path/path2/mytest.py
You can do
nose2 tests.path.path2.mytest
In previous version of Nose testing framework, there were several ways to specify only a subset of all tests:
nosetests test.module
nosetests another.test:TestCase.test_method
nosetests a.test:TestCase
nosetests /path/to/test/file.py:test_function
http://nose.readthedocs.org/en/latest/usage.html#selecting-tests
However, I can’t find any information about similar test selection in Nose2. There’s a mention in docs about different test discovery, but that doesn’t seem to be related.
Is there a way to select a specific test or test case in nose2 or (more generally) in unittest2?
You’d have to use a config file:
nose2 -c nose2.cfg
nose2.cfg:
[unittest]
start-dir=test/module
You’d probably want to just run all tests if you’re considering writing a script that will modify that config file and re-run your nose tests. Unit tests should be pretty quick…but if you’re just focusing on a specific section of tests, it’s worth it to jump into this file and change that line during development.
I have some tests in dev/tests, for example:
dev/tests/test_file.py
I am able to run this with:
nose2 -s dev tests.test_file
Additionally, I’m able to run a specific test method in a test case as follows:
nose2 -s dev tests.test_file.TestCase.test_method
Does that accomplish what you want?
Works without -s, if you have your test in tests/path/path2/mytest.py
You can do
nose2 tests.path.path2.mytest